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After Kathy Acker: A Biography by Chris Kraus
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ...scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. The media storm that surrounded Kathy Acker's books was unprecedented: her books were banned in several countri ...Show more
After Kathy Acker: A Biography by Chris Kraus
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore. The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. In this first, fully authorized biography, Kraus approaches Acker both as a writer, and as a member of the ar ...Show more
Aliens and Anorexia by Chris Kraus
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
First published in 2000, Chris Kraus's second novel, Aliens & Anorexia, defined a female form of chance that is both emotional and radical. Unfolding like a set of Chinese boxes, with storytelling and philosophy informing each other, the novel weaves together the lives of earnest visionaries and fai ...Show more
Aliens and Anorexia by Chris Kraus
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's 1996, and Chris Kraus is in Berlin, seeking a distributor for her film Gravity & Grace, described alternately as 'an experimental 16mm film about hope, despair, religious feeling and conviction' and 'an amateur intellectual's home video expanded to bulimic lengths' ...It's 1942 in Marseille, an ...Show more
Francesca Woodman: Alternate Stories by Francesca Woodman / text by Chris Kraus
99.50 AUD
Category: Photography
This elegant volume presents more than 40 vintage photographs by the pioneering American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958–81), many of which have never before been seen. These photographs span the creative arc of the artist’s life, focusing on the varied thought processes, interests and influences t ...Show more
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone, tra ...Show more
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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.In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the ...Show more
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
15.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passi ...Show more
Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin by Andrea Dworkin; Johanna Fateman; Amy Scholder; Chris Kraus
44.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Selections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s. Radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within the women's ...Show more
Social Practices by Chris Kraus
39.98 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents Ser.
Essays on and around art and art practices by the author of I Love Dick.A border isn't a metaphor. Knowing each other for over a decade makes us witnesses to each other's lives. My escape is his prison. We meet in a bar and smoke Marlboros. -- from Social PracticesMixing biography, autobiography, fictio ...Show more
Sophie Podolski - The Country Where Everything Is Permitted by Caroline Dumalin; Jean-philippe Convert; Chris Kraus; Lars Bang Larsen; Erik Thys
49.99 AUD
Category: Art
This is the first major publication about the work of Belgian poet and artist Sophie Podolski, who has lingered in obscurity since her untimely death at the age of 21. Born in Brussels in 1953, Podolski's work is emblematic of a time marked by sexual liberation, antipsychiatry and youth disenchantment. ...Show more
The Bastard Factory by Chris Kraus
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Chris Kraus' The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga to Moscow, Berlin and Munich all the way to Tel Aviv.Hubert and Konstantin Solm are brothers, born in Riga at the beginning of the twentieth cen ...Show more