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Jack Pierson»rank: 368493by: Enrique Juncosa, Wayne Koestenbaum, Rachael Thomas, Richard Marshall
: :This publication--at once a daybook, a survey (it accompanies the artist's first exhibition in Ireland) and an artist's book--collects eight previous publications on the American artist Jack Pierson, several of which are long out of print. Pierson was among the first photographers to print pages with the imagery bleeding out of its usual white frame, and to deploy a bleached-out and overexposed style of photography that connotes a longing for a recent but already dimming past, littered with the props and players of yesterday's parties. By small increments, an emotional tone builds that is both warmly homoerotic and unabashedly wistful. All of these books were designed by the artist and are here ... |
Amy Sillman: Works on Paper»rank: 335879by: Wayne Koestenbaum
: :Works on Paper marks the first major publication of the work of noted New York painter Amy Sillman, whose rapidly growing reputation and increasingly recognized influence on other artists make its timing ideal. Her paintings and drawings are at once narrative and decorative, filled with quirky figures and diminutive, patterned elements. Her works on paper, which she considers particularly central to her art-making practice and her wider portfolio, are often made up of multiple components. They create the feeling of an extended and meandering sequence of events, and have been described as reminiscent of both film loops and long letters to her viewers. Works on Paper consists of four major series of ... |
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Karen Kilimnik»rank: 770665by: Ingrid Schaffner, Scott Rothkopf, Joel Lobenthal, Dominic Molon, Wayne Koestenbaum, Karen Kilimnik
: :Published on the occasion of the first major museum survey of Karen Kilimnik's work, a traveling exhibition with stops in Philadelphia, Miami, Aspen and Chicago, this chic but scholarly catalogue is the most substantial on the artist to date. It highlights an important American artist whose work objectifies mass-cultural desire with glittering poignancy and includes a nuanced selection of 15 years worth of collage-based activity in the realms of painting, drawing, photography, sculptural installation and object-making, as well as new work. Fully illustrated at 180 pages, it features an essay by exhibition curator Ingrid Schaffner which analyzes the development of the artist's work and its historic contexts as well as four contributions ... |
Hotel Theory»rank: 84792by: Wayne Koestenbaum
: :Hotel Theory is two books in one: a meditation on the meaning of hotels, and a dime novel (Hotel Women) featuring Lana Turner and Liberace. Typical of Wayne Koestenbaum’s invigoratingly inventive style, the two books — one fiction, one nonfiction — run concurrently, in twin columns, and the articles “a,” “an,” and “the” never appear. The nonfiction ruminations on hotels are divided into eight dossiers, composed of short takes on the presence of hotels in the author’s dreams as well as in literature, film, and history. Guest stars include everyone from Oscar Wilde to Marilyn Monroe. Hotel Theory gives (divided) voice to an aesthetic of hyperaesthesia, of yearning. It is an oblique ... |
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Mawrdew Czgowchwz (New York Review Books Classics)»rank: 735022by: James Mccourt
: :Diva Mawrdew Czgowchwz (pronounced 'Mardu Gorgeous') bursts like the most brilliant of comets onto the international opera scene, only to confront the deadly malice and black magic of her rivals. Outrageous and uproarious, flamboyant and serious as only the most perfect frivolity can be, James McCourt's entrancing send-up of the world of opera has been a cult classic for more than a quarter-century. This comic tribute to the love of art is a triumph of art and love by a contemporary American master. |
Andy Warhol»rank: 1607234by: Wayne Koestenbaum
: :The sixties were the 'sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll' era, and Andy Warhol was its cultural icon. Painter, filmmaker, photographer, philosopher, Warhol was both celebrity and celebrant, the man who put the 'pop' in art. His studio, The Factory, where his free-spirited cast of 'superstars' mingled with the rich and famous, was ground zero for the explosions that rocked American cultural life. And yet for all his fame, Warhol was an enigma: a participant in the excesses of his time who remained a faithful churchgoer, a nearly inarticulate man who was also a great aphorist ('In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes'), an artist whose body of work sizzles ... |
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The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire»rank: 571857by: Wayne Koestenbaum, Tony Kushner
: :'Brilliant. . . The Queen's Throat is a dazzling performance.'-New York Times Book Review This passionate love letter to opera, lavishly praised and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award when it was first published, is now firmly established as a cult classic. In a learned, moving, and sparklingly witty melange of criticism, subversion, and homage, Wayne Koestenbaum illuminates mysteries of fandom and obsession, and has created an exuberant work of personal meditation and cultural history. Review:Why do so many gay men love opera? What makes an 'opera queen'? What is the connection between gay sexuality and the full-throated longing that emerges from the diva's mouth? In The Queen's Throat: ... |
Jackie under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon»rank: 768672by: Wayne Koestenbaum
: :A brilliant, irreverent, penetrating and wholly original deconstruction of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, American icon. In an eclectic gallery of fantasies and tableaus, Wayne Koestenbaum explains the late First Lady's mesmeric hold on America by discovering the myths and metaphors that have been associated with her. |
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Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures»rank: 810675by: Callie Angel, Thomas Sokolowski, Wayne Koestenbaum, Glenn Lowry
: :Prolific, mercurial, thought-provoking, charming, engaging, dynamic, confusing--just like the artist himself, Andy Warhol's films explore the gamut of human emotion. From the time he obtained his first film camera in 1963, up until his death in 1987, Warhol explored and created moving images ranging from epic films, to personal portraits, to programs for cable television, to music videos. In fact, in a mere five years (1963-1968) he produced nearly 650 films including hundreds of silent screen tests--portrait films--and dozens of full-length movies, in styles ranging from minimalist avant-garde to commercial 'sexploitation.' His films and videos capture the rich and raw texture of the fertile cultural milieu in which he lived and worked, ... |
Contemporary Erotic Drawing»rank: 1041197by: Sue Taylor, Stuart Horodner, Wayne Koestenbaum, Sara Kellner, Chris Ofili, Cecily Brown, Robert Crumb, Juan Gomez, Ida Applebroog, Leon Golub, Danica Phelps, Su-en Wong
: :Encompassing the subjects of sexuality and erotica, The Aldrich Contemporary Museum presents this catalogue from the Contemporary Erotic Drawing exhibition, featuring more than 35 artists. In describing the immediacy and intimacy of drawing, Joseph Bueys once stated, 'Drawing is thinking,' and indeed, for many artists, drawing is a highly personal and revealing process in which raw ideas are expressed, allowing spontaneous imagery or thoughts to emerge. And so, to examine the subject of eroticism and human sexuality, it seems appropriate to examine these 100 drawings. Many of the images seem to work against images in the media, and so define what is erotic and titallating in their own terms. This 204-page catalogue ... |