identity 1989-2002 different agonistes

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2 reviews
Dennis Cooper, Nayland Blake

Artspace Books, 1993

Dennis Cooper at his best
Shocking and graphic... yet quite moving. Interesting style, from prose to drama to letter excerpt. And to make it even more gruesome and frightening, it's based on a real-life story.

In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice

1 review

City Lights Publishers, 1995

Variety of the art, essays and fiction highlighting an exhibition at the Berkley Art Museum
I was pleasantly delighted by the variety of the art, essays and surprisingly fiction. The exhibition is over 100 pages of the book in sections titled - VOID SELF DRAG OTHER COUPLE FAMILY ORGY WORLD UTOPIA I would have enjoyed a larger format edition to view the art more clearly and would have benefited by having an index that could have guided me to favorite artists. ...

NAYLAND BLAKE: PUNCH AGONISTES
NAYLAND). Hawkins, Richard (BLAKE

Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, 1990

Matthew Benedict, The Mage's Pantry

1 review
Nayland Blake, Oliver Zybok, ...

Hatje Cantz, 2008

Insight into an amazing world
I become aware of Matthew Benedict's work a little over a year ago, and was immediately drawn to it. This book not only explores the sources that inform his work, but lavishly illustrate his talents which are not well known enough on these, his home shores. I hope this will serve to bring great recognition to an youthful talent whose technical ability is only surpassed by his imagination. For ...

1991, 1992
Jim Hodges

CRG Gallery, New York, NY, 2007

This publication focuses on the work of Jim Hodges between 1991 and 1992. This being a significant period during which a number of seminal works were created and the begginings of many others. This book was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the 2007 ADAA Art fair in New York City. Essay by Nayland Blake

Nayland Blake: Some Kind of Love: Performance Video 1989-2002
Nayland Blake

Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, 2003

Blake's work explores complicated and subtly mixed concepts such as identity, race, relationships and representation. David Deitcher writes in the exhibition catalogue, "Nayland Blake's sculptural installations and performances have revealed a wide range of interests, from popular culture to vanguard subversions; from Camp to the queer body in the age of AIDS; from Sadean and psychoanalytical texts to the toxic legacy of American racism. Like so ...

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