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Chris Kraus
A self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with her theorist-husband’s colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the power of first-person narration.
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Shulamith Firestone
Short stories set among the disappeared and darkened sectors of New York City, about characters who fall prey to an increasingly bureaucratized poverty.
After they raised her dose to 42…
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Interiors and speculative memories
How do we imagine our place in the world in the current age of "polycrisis," in which many disruptive events are occurring simultaneously? This question runs…
Major survey of the artistic provocateur and trailblazer Linder (b.1954, Liverpool). Offers an illuminating overview of the past 50 years of this iconic artist's career, exploring the full range of…
The first authorized biography of the avant-garde punk writer Kathy Acker, a legend in her own time, by the author of the bestselling I Love Dick
Rich girl, street punk…
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The searing sequel to Chris Kraus’s bestselling cult classic I Love Dick.
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A savagely ironic portrait of a couple’s failing marriage set in early 90s Europe, offering fierce and timeless reflections on love, identity and desire.
Catalogue of an exhibition of the same name held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, from 25 November 2023 - 28 April 2024.
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Baudrillard meets Breaking Bad in this stark and bleakly hilarious novel about a descent into an underclass world of born-again Christianity, self-help, and crack.
Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art.
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Video Green examines the explosion of late 1990s Los Angeles art driven by high-profile graduate programs.
Essays on and around art and art practices by the author of I Love Dick.
Joanna Walsh,Chris Kraus
A novel in essays that locates a romance within the mesh of electronic communication.
Giovanni Intra
Artist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era.
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The European bestseller, an epic of two brothers, brought together and divided by betrayal, secrecy and self-delusion, spanning seventy years of German history: from the Russian Revolution, to World War…
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Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and new American fiction.
Chris Kraus,Sylvere Lotringer
The first authorized biography of postmodernism’s literary hero, Kathy Acker.
Classic and previously unseen photographs and archival materials by a genius of staged photography, with a new essay by Chris Kraus
This elegant volume presents more than 40 vintage photographs…
Eileen Myles,Chris Kraus
Eileen Myles, the popular author of Chelsea Girls and Not Me, the poet who ran an openly female campaign for president in 1992, now gives us a talking masterpiece of…
Jeanne Graff,Chris Kraus
A novel that captures the glancing intersections of a loose group of artists and lawyers, restaurateurs, philosophers, wine-makers, and boxers.
Kathy Acker
The novel that made a cult icon of Kathy Acker, whose work is like reading William S. Burroughs while watching an avant-garde theater group perform to the sounds of a…
Chris Kraus,Travis Jeppesen,Helen Stuhr-Rommereim
This book assembles all the talks and media presented at Aliens & Anorexia: A Chris Kraus Symposium, which took place in March 2013 at the Royal College of Art, London…
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In 1991, unhappily married Sylvie and her husband set off on a journey across Eastern Europe in search of a Romanian orphan to adopt.
Marie Darrieussecq,Penny Hueston,Chris Kraus
Translation of: aEtre ici est une splendeur.
Jane Dickson
Featuring a foreword by Chris Kraus, Jane Dickson in Times Square is a time machine back to a New York City that was truly wild: lawless, manic, sometimes squalid, sometimes…
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Michael Bracewell,Nicolas Di Oliveira,Chris Kraus
Edited by Nicolas De Oliveira, Philippe Pirotte. Text by Michael Bracewell, Chris Kraus, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith.
Jean-Jacques Schuhl,Chris Kraus
A cult classic in France, the first translation of a novel that captures a subjective stroll through an underground, glamorous Paris
David Rattray
The only collection of Rattray’s prose: essays that offer a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition.
A collection of essays that brings new insight to the question of the continuing, and inexhaustible, fascination of Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE. There is particular reference to…
This volume explores the theory, historical practice, and future of the traditional commentary on classical texts. Special topics include the relationship between texts, commentators and readers; citation, selectivity, lemmatization, and…
Catherine Breillat
A beautiful woman wanders through a gay disco and engages a man, confident that he will follow her. Perversely and dispassionately, she offers her body as the ground of a…
In his work, Yorgos Sapountzis appropriates public space and the statues, monuments, and memorials that inhabit it. The Athens-born artist concentrates less on their historical-political meanings and much more on…
Louise Neri,Yayoi Kusama
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Reina Sofia, Madrid, 10 May-12 September 2011, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 10 October 2011-9 January 2012, Tate Modern, London, 9 February-5 June…
After San Francisco’s new mayor announced imminent plans to clean up downtown with a new corporate dot com corridor and arts district–featuring the new headquarters of Twitter and Burning Man–curators…
Joanna Zielinska
Writers from Claire Bishop to Chris Kraus reflect on new conditions for performance art
An anthology of new and reprinted essays, interviews and fictional texts on performance art today, Performance…
Hotel Theory Reader explores the possibilities of theory as an art form, bringing together ideas initially explored in an exhibition organized in 2015 at REDCAT CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary…
Jean Baudrillard
Baudrillard’s remarkably prescient meditation on terrorism throws light on post-9/11 delusional fears and political simulations.
Daniel Kraus
Originally published in single magazine form, The autumnal #1-8.
This is the second volume of collected lectures from the Hochschule fu?r Bildende Ku?nste Sta?delschule in Frankfurt. "With Sta?delschule Lectures 2, we are delving further into the generous program of…
David Wojnarowicz,Chris Kraus
Audio journals that document Wojnarowicz’s turbulent attempts to understand his anxieties and passions, and tracking his thoughts as they develop in real time.
