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Andy Warhol (Great Lives) by Wayne Koestenbaum
Category: Biography | Series: Lives Ser.
'Properly analytical ... always entertaining' TIME OUT'Should tempt both those generally familiar with Andy Warhol and, even more, young people who have trouble imagining how popular art can challenge the status quo' L A TIMESPainter, filmmaker, photographer, philosopher, all-round celebrity, Andy Warho ...Show more
At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World by Evan Garza (Text by); Sarah Schulman (Text by); Wayne Koestenbaum (Text by); Alice Neel; Hilton Als (Text by); Alex Fialho (Text by)
Category: Art Books
Alice Neel's unstinting, visionary engagement with the lives of those around her resulted in a queered, inclusive oeuvre. This aspect of her work is explored for the first time in this new catalogue. Curated by Hilton Als and organized in collaboration with the Estate of Alice Neel, At Home: Alice Neel ...Show more
Bill Jacobson - When Is a Place by Wayne Koestenbaum (Text by); Miko McGinty (Designed by)
Category: Monograph & Portraiture
The images in Bill Jacobson's when is a place suggest risks and uncertainties. They question both the nature of perception and our existential place in the world, themes explored throughout his five decades of making photographs. Jacobson's use of a defocused lens, bleached out skies, and an otherwise c ...Show more
Figure It Out by Wayne Koestenbaum
Category: Languages and Reference
"Toward what goal do I aspire, ever, but collision? Always accident, concussion, bodies butting together . . . By collision I also mean metaphor and metonymy: operations of slide and slip and transfuse." In his new nonfiction collection, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum en ...Show more
Humiliation by Wayne Koestenbaum
Category: Psychology | Series: BIG IDEAS//small Bks.
Wayne Koestenbaum considers the meaning of humiliation in this eloquent work of cultural critique and personal reflection. The lives of people both famous and obscure are filled with scarlet-letter moments when their dirty laundry sees daylight. In these moments we not only witness the reversibility ...Show more
The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum
Category: Languages and Reference
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 ...Show more
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