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Jack Pierson
Enrique Juncosa, Wayne Koestenbaum, ...

Charta/Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2008

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 ...

Karen Kilimnik
Ingrid Schaffner, Scott Rothkopf, ...

ICA Philadelphia, 2007

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 ...

Contemporary Erotic Drawing

1 review
Sue Taylor, Stuart Horodner, ...

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005

Drawings, and a book of drawings
I like the drawings. Georgia Marsh and Danica Phelps offer sensitive sketches of couples coupled, Gina Magrid explores the boundary between clinical and erotic, Ruth Marten baffles, Scott Martin amuses, and Kim McCarty disturbs. Juan Gomez evokes something of complex plumbing and Popeye's Olive Oyl in his almost-legible connections. As a whole, the collection displays a high level of artistry. ...

Andy Warhol (Penguin Lives)

13 reviews
Wayne Koestenbaum

Viking Adult, 2001

A gorgeous, innovative work
As a Warhol scholar, and someone who has read dozens of books and essays about him, I would heartily recommend this as an _addition_ to the other works. It's not really a biography in the traditional sense at all, and it certainly shouldn't be the first or only thing you read. If you prefer a clinical, detached, "just the facts, ma'am" approach - skip this. If you are terrified by 20th ...

Mawrdew Czgowchwz (New York Review Books Classics)

5 reviews
James Mccourt

NYRB Classics, 2002

Wonderful, but Not For Everyone
This book is not for everyone. The prose style is dense, there are far too many characters, and the novel requires at least a passing knowledge of opera. However, the cattyness of the observations, the rhythmns of the sentences and their unexpected twists and turns, make for delightful reading. A sample of the prose is the best introduction. "While His Scarlet Eminence and Msgr. Finneagle sat ...

Hotel Theory
Wayne Koestenbaum

Soft Skull Press, 2007

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 ...

Amy Sillman: Works on Paper

2 reviews
Wayne Koestenbaum

Gregory R. Miller & Company, 2006

artist of our time!
This book is really a work of art itself. I love the work of Amy Sillman and though I can't afford one of her works, this book is as close as one can get. You can really experience the work up close and the different qualities of the paper and comments by Koestenbaum are pure poetry! Its truly a dedication to a great woman artist. If you are an art lover, you need to experience this artist!!!

The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire

7 reviews
Wayne Koestenbaum, Tony Kushner

Da Capo Press, 2001

Queenly Insights
The author is sometimes outrageous yet outspoken in some of his assumptions and observations about those who attend and enjoy opera and those singers and other musicians who perform these works. Some may disagree vehemently with some or all of his consclusions, but no one who reads this book will be without an opinion - either agreeing wholeheartedly with the author or having a "hissy fit" over ...

Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures

1 review
Callie Angel, Thomas Sokolowski, ...

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2005

Visions of superstars dance in my head
A few short essays. The same stills over and over. But the essays are superb. Klaus Biesenbach sums the scene up, brings it to life, in just 4 pages. The stills have become captivating in a month of viewing. Two hundred pages of them, effective black-and-white. How hard to stay still for 3 minutes. What's more erotic than Jane Holzer brushing her teeth? The magic of Warhol is ...

Andy Warhol Lives
wayne koestenbaum

weidenfeld nicolson, 2001

the life of andy warhol

Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes: A Novel

1 review
Wayne Koestenbaum

Soft Skull Press, 2004

Moira should sue
Wayne Koestenbaum's book MOIRA ORFEI IN AIGUES-MORTES is arse. It's the diary of a polysexual pianist, so it's mostly about arse, although it's more penis than pianist. I thought there were only two sexes, so the most you could get was bisexual, but page after page shows how wrong I was. His diarist loves lists. He mainly loves arse, but he also loves lists. He lists the places he's been, the ...

Kurt Kauper: Paintings 2001-2007
Wayne Koestenbaum, Pepe Karmel, ...

Deitch Projects, 2008

According to The New York Times , "It would be easy to read Kurt Kauper's nude portraits of the former hockey players Bobby Orr and Derek Sanderson as a rote comment on the fragile state of American (or Canadian) masculinity. They work better as an erotic and personal tribute, one that draws on the artist's childhood in a Bruins-worshiping Boston suburb; the neo-Classical figuration of Jacques-Louis David; and the overt sensuality of ...

Cleavage: Essays on Sex, Stars, and Aesthetics

7 reviews
Wayne Koestenbaum

Ballantine Books, 2000

Indispensable, excellent book
I don't know who these goons are that keep putting down Wayne Koestenbaum, but he's one of the best contemporary writers out there, and this is an absolutely brilliant book -- a compilation of the best of his cultural essays over the past years. Don't let a couple of lamebrains dissuade you from this marvelous book -- Koestenbaum has a lot to say about modern culture, the cult of stardom and ...

A. Neel: Paintings from the Thirties

Robert Miller Gallery, 1997

Male/Female: 105 Photographs

Aperture, 1999

No age has explored the spectrum of gender with its infinite nuances and variety as ours has. Humankind's first and most essential dichotomy-that we are created in two natures, male and female-has fascinated artists since the Willendorf sculptor shaped his Venus as unmistakably female. Each sex has connoted different powers and lures over the ages. Male/Female combines portraits, snapshots, collages, and everything in between to generate a ...

Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender

2 reviews
Wayne Koestenbaum

George Braziller, 1995

yes, poetry
It is very evident to me that Wayne Koestenbaum has dared to do something with Rhapsody that few poets have. His writing questions rather than solves life like many of the arrogant poets that tend to become so popular in society.

Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films: New Poems
Wayne Koestenbaum

Turtle Point Press, 2006

"These latest poems reach swoony, unforeseen heights of mental raucousness and worshipful style."-Dennis Cooper "With a nod to Woody Allen's story 'The Whore of Mensa' Koestenbaum proffers that largest of sex organs-the mind-and entices with erudite and smuttily trenchant wit. Charming, teasing, brainy and slightly Seder-Masochistic, this collection asks that age old question, 'is Crisco Kosher?' The answer might surprise you."-D.A. Powell ...

Jackie under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon

11 reviews
Wayne Koestenbaum

Plume, 1996

Amusing, mezmerizing, campy, hypnotic
I simply couldn't put this book down. Kostenbaum's charming analysis of Jackie O's celebrity is dazzling, eccentric and riveting. This book is by no means a biography; rather, the author introduces us to the Jackie of his imagination. Kostenbaum's highly personal essays tranform Jackie-watching from a mere sport into a delightful intellectual and spiritual excercise. It is truly a pleasure to ...

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