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Book I ve Seen the Future and I m Not Going

Download or read book I ve Seen the Future and I m Not Going written by Peter McGough and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly funny, frank, and shattering, this is the bittersweet memoir by Peter McGough of his life with artist David McDermott. Set in New York’s Lower East Side of the 1980s and mid-1990s, it is also a devastatingly candid look at the extreme naiveté and dysfunction that would destroy both their lives. Escaping the trauma of growing up gay in Syracuse and being bullied at school, McGough attended art school in New York, dropped out, and took out jobs in clubs, where he met McDermott. Dazzled by McDermott, whom he found fascinating and worldly, McGough agreed to collaborate with him not only on their art but also in McDermott’s very entertaining Victorian lifestyle. McGough evokes the rank and seedy East Village of that time, where he encountered Keith Haring, Rene Ricard, Kenny Scharf, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, and Jacqueline and Julian Schnabel, among many others. Nights were spent at the Ninth Circle, Danceteria, and Studio 54; going to openings at the FUN Gallery; or visiting friends in the Chelsea Hotel. By the mid-1980s, McDermott & McGough were hugely successful, showing at three Whitney Biennials, represented by the best galleries here and abroad, and known for their painting, photography and “time experiment” interiors. Then, overnight, it was all gone. And one day in the mid-1990s, McGough would find that he, like so many of his friends, had been diagnosed with AIDS. I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going is a compelling memoir for our time, told with humor and compassion, about how lives can become completely entwined even in failure and what it costs to reemerge, phoenix-like, and carry on.

Book Alain Elkann Interviews

Download or read book Alain Elkann Interviews written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alain Elkann has mastered the art of the interview. With a background in novels and journalism, and having published over twenty books translated across ten languages, he infuses his interviews with innovation, allowing them to flow freely and organically. Alain Elkann Interviews will provide an unprecedented window into the minds of some of the most well-known and -respected figures of the last twenty-five years.

Book McDermott   McGough

    Book Details:
  • Author : McDermott & McGough
  • Publisher : Charta
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book McDermott McGough written by McDermott & McGough and published by Charta. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "McDermott & McGough met in New York's East Village art scene in 1980, and are renowned for their performative fusion of art and life. Rebelling against the confines of chronological time, the artists appropriated imagery and objects from the late 1800s and early 1900s. They reconstructed their lives as Late 19th Century and Early 20th Century artists, dedicated to the practice of living historicity." "This volume shows two decades of photographic work by two of the least conventional and most fanciful protagonists of contemporary art. It includes more than 120 works through numerous historic photographic media including Palladium, Gum, Salt, and Cyanotype prints."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Artists in Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Veronica Kavass
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1599621134
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Artists in Love written by Veronica Kavass and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is the relationship between life, love, and art? This gorgeously illustrated book goes into both the art and love of artists couples from the 20th and 21st centuries"--Provided by publisher.

Book Nature Morte

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Petry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Nature Morte written by Michael Petry and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thought-provoking and richly visual, Nature Morte brings together, for the first time, the poignant, provocative re-imaginings of the traditional still life by over 180 international contemporary artists. This visually stunning and timely book reveals how leading artists of the 21st century are reinvigorating the still life, a genre previously synonymous with the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Old Masters. Michael Petry's careful selection celebrates works by emerging and established artists alike, from all over the globe, including John Currin, Elmgreen & Dragset, Robert Gober, Renata Hegyi, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas, Beatriz Milhazes, Gabriel Orozco, Elizabeth Peyton, Marc Quinn, Gerhard Richter, Sam Taylor-Wood and Ai Wei Wei. Short and compelling introductions begin each chapter and are followed by dramatic, visually led spreads that pair each work with a perceptive reading of its significance to the still-life tradition. Petry's engaging, provocative text reveals how contemporary practitioners are revisiting the major motifs of the still life and translating them for the modern world. Petry explores the timeless themes of life, death and the irrevocable passing of time in these new works for our modern world; artworks that invite us to pause and reconsider what it means to be human.

Book Chainer s Torment

    Book Details:
  • Author : Scott McGough
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002-01
  • ISBN : 9780786926961
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Chainer s Torment written by Scott McGough and published by . This book was released on 2002-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pit-fighting arenas, a Cabal dementia caster unleashes an array of horrific monsters when the dark nightmares of his mind suddenly come to life. Original.

Book Dissension

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cory Herndon
  • Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
  • Release : 2010-04-21
  • ISBN : 0786957077
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book Dissension written by Cory Herndon and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the radically new and intriguing world of Ravnica as a jaded—and ghostly—lieutenant fights to save the city to which he is inextricably bound The streets of Ravnica run red with blood. Guild fights guild and horrifying monsters ravage the city, destroying all who stand in their way. But as Ravnica crumbles, a method emerges from the madness. It becomes clear that the city's chaos was calculated. But by whom? Something must be done. And unfortunately for Agrus Kos, being a member of the undead doesn't mean you don't have a job to do.

Book Assassin s Blade

Download or read book Assassin s Blade written by Scott McGough and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One courageous and honorable man sets out to stop the reign of terror perpetrated by a ruthless emperor and his scheming, power-hungry, and ambitious assassin. Original.

Book Artist  Rebel  Dandy

Download or read book Artist Rebel Dandy written by Kate Irvin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging exploration of the dandy and men's fashion over the past two centuries, from Beau Brummell to hip-hop Artist/Rebel/Dandy celebrates the pleasures of the sharp-dressed man, from the discreet sophistication of the consummately elegant George Bryan "Beau" Brummell in the early 19th century to the diverse, highly personal flair of the tastemakers who color the landscape of menswear today. Since the word "dandy" came into vogue in London in 1813, it has at times been used to describe someone superficial, flamboyant, and self-indulgent. Instead, the dandy is here shown to employ profound thought and imagination in his self-presentation, fashioning an image that often challenges the status quo and transcends the ordinary. A series of fascinating essays traces the often contradictory definitions and images of the dandy, the history of young men and their clothes in the long 19th century, the exquisite fabrics and tailoring that play an important role in dandy style, and the relationship of black dandyism and hip-hop. In addition, this book features fifteen musings on notable dandies written by individuals who share a kinship with their subject, including Patti Smith considering Charles Baudelaire; a reflection on Oscar Wilde by his grandson, Merlin Holland; Daniela Morera, formerly part of Andy Warhol's Factory crowd, reminiscing about the artist's image; and writer Philip Hoare describing the "thrift-shop dandyism" of director John Waters. Published in association with the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Exhibition Schedule: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design 04/26/13-08/18/13

Book Morningtide

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cory J. Herndon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780786947904
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Morningtide written by Cory J. Herndon and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunted by his own people and fleeing a pastoral world gone mad, Rhys, a high-ranking elf disfigured in battle, must struggle not only to solve the mystery behind his masters cryptic suicide but also to survive, in this entry of an exciting new series of betrayal and honor in an unforgiving wilderness. Original.

Book On the Street

Download or read book On the Street written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of raw, edgy and adventurous photographs originally taken for the style pages of The Village Voice between 1980 and 1990, 'On the Street' ran with the the tag line 'There are eight million fashions in the Naked City and Amy Arbus is going to photograph all of them - a few at a time'.

Book Art after Stonewall  1969 1989

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Weinberg
  • Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
  • Release : 2019-04-16
  • ISBN : 0847864065
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Art after Stonewall 1969 1989 written by Jonathan Weinberg and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators, Art After Stonewall explores the powerful art that emerged in the wake of the Stonewall Riots and the rise of the LGBTQ liberation movement in the U.S. Art after Stonewall reveals the impact of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender civil rights movement on the art world. Illustrated with more than 200 works, this groundbreaking volume stands as a visual history of twenty years in American queer life. It focuses on openly LGBT artists like Nan Goldin, Harmony Hammond, Lyle Ashton Harris, Greer Lankton, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie, and Andy Warhol, as well as the practices of such artists as Diane Arbus, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Karen Finley in terms of their engagement with queer subcultures. The Stonewall Riots of June 1969 sparked the beginning of the struggle for gay and lesbian equality, and yet fifty years later, key artists who fomented the movement remain little known. This book tells the stories behind their works--which cut across media, mixing performance, photographs, painting, sculpture, film, and music with images taken from magazines, newspapers, and television.

Book Double Talk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wayne Koestenbaum
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-10-06
  • ISBN : 1351818678
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Double Talk written by Wayne Koestenbaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer on hysteria, J.A. Symonds and Havelock Ellis on sexuality, a novel by Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad, The Waste Land of T.S. Eliot (and Ezra Pound), even the Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge: men making books together. Wayne Koestenbaum's startling interpretation of literary collaboration focuses on homosexual desire: men write together, he argues, in order either to express or to evade homosexual feelings. Their writing becomes a textual intercourse, the book at once a female body they can share and the child of their partnership. These man-made texts steal a generative power that women's bodies seem to represent. Seen as the site of a struggle between homosexual and homophobic energies, the texts Koestenbaum explores – works of psychoanalysis, sexology, fiction, and poetry – emerge as more complex, more revealing. They crystallize and refract the anxiety of male sexuality at the end of the last century, and open up a deeper understanding of connections today between the erotic and the literary. Drawing upon the work of feminist critics, Koestenbaum connects male collaboration and the exchange of women within patriarchy: he peers into both medical texts and imaginative literature, disturbing our ready acceptance of the co-authored work. This strong and unsettling book transforms our understanding of the creative process, providing a new sense of what both collaborative and solitary artistry mean.

Book Outlaw

    Book Details:
  • Author : Scott McGough
  • Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 0786933577
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Outlaw written by Scott McGough and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of mysticism and honor, a war is brewing. Spirits launch attacks against humans as, in the shadows, a terror lurks just beyond sight. Michiko, daughter of the warlord Konda, must brave the dangers outside her father's fortress to consult holy monks and the orochi, snake folk with a strong connection to the spirit world. Yet, when Michiko meets Umezawa, a thief and black magic user, she realizes that to stop the war that is about to sweep the land, she may have to make alliances with her enemies.

Book Real Nazis

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : Patrick Frey Edition
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9783906803524
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Real Nazis written by and published by Patrick Frey Edition. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Glamorous impersonations of evil: In the fall of 1999 Edition Patrick Frey published 'The Nazis', which soon became a legendary cult book. It has long since been out of print and remains highly coveted to this day. While 'The Nazis' showed stills of actors playing Nazis in various Hollywood movies, Polish artist Piotr Uklanksi has now juxtaposed them with the real thing: Nazi party bigwigs, decorated 'war heroes' and war criminals. Painstakingly culled from a great many different archives, this follow-up compilation superimposes fact on fiction, the stagey, propagandistic imagery of the Third Reich on the mockup Nazi iconography of Hollywood, revealing an uncanny, even spooky, resemblance between the play-acting and real-life exponents of evil. 'Real Nazis', using the same format and production values as its predecessor, is the 'real' brother that now seems an ugly reflection of that 'glamorous' artist's book 'The Nazis'"--Publisher's website (viewed on December 7, 2017)

Book Bald Ego

    Book Details:
  • Author : Max Blagg
  • Publisher : Bald Ego Publishing
  • Release : 2004-08-02
  • ISBN : 9781564661203
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Bald Ego written by Max Blagg and published by Bald Ego Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Either the world's most visual literary magazine or the world's most literary visual magazine, "Bald Ego" continues its pursuit of syncretic splendor with a lustrous lineup for issue three. Jack Spade transformed the cover into a readymade. Inside, Elias Khoury, Philip Taaffe, John Lurie, Gary Indiana, Sam Matamoros, Mcdermott & McGough, Sante d'Orazio, Tom Sachs, Keith Sonnier, Elizabeth Peyton, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, Fred Tomaselli, James Salter and many more. It's the definitive arts and literature magazine for the (undefined).

Book MALE

Download or read book MALE written by and published by PPP Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text by Collier Schorr.