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Ron Athey, Guest Editor
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The iconic American artist Ron Athey is our guest editor for October. To mark this moment, we are offering Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey at a specially discounted rate, and Ron has recommended a further eleven titles on Unbound that have caught his eye - also discounted. Read this blog by Ron about what draws him to these titles.
Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
Ed. Dominic Johnson£18.00 £22.50
“Johnson’s committed, affectionate, and generous volume does an extraordinary job of paying homage to Athey, of grappling with the complexities of live art, and of doing justice to the wildness...
Survival of the Sickest, the art of Martin O'Brien
Eds. Martin O'Brien and David MacDiarmid£12.00 £15.00
Survival of the Sickest, the art of Martin O’Brien is the first book bringing together writing and documentation on Martin O’Brien and marking ten years of his work. The book...
Kira O’Reilly: Untitled (Bodies)
Eds. Harriet Curtis & Martin Hargreaves£20.00 £25.00
"a sumptuous and wide-ranging examination of the work of an inter- nationally significant interdisciplinary artist. Even before it is opened, the book makes a claim for the startling collisions of...
Grabbing Pussy
Karen Finley£10.40 £13.00
Based on her widely praised performance piece Unicorn Gratitude Mystery ("Wickedly funny," as described by The New York Times), Karen Finley’s Grabbing Pussy explores the Shakespearean dynamics that surface when libidos and loyalties clash in...
Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin American Art
Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra£25.20 £31.50
Celebrate the launch of Touched Bodies on October 1 in London at the Live Art Development Agency. What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art? In Touched...
Cassils: Artist Book
David J. Getsy and Julia Steinmetz£28.00 £35.00
We are awaiting an order of Cassils - all orders will be recorded and shipped later this month. Cassils is a performance artist and body builder who uses their own body...
Unlimited Action: The performance of extremity in the 1970s
Dominic Johnson£14.39 £17.99
Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of...
Gothic Queer Culture
Laura Westengard£19.99 £24.99
In Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought—including ghosts...
So Real It Hurts
Lydia Lunch£11.12 £13.99
Through personal essays, interviews, and poetic verse, punk musician and cultural icon Lydia Lunch claws and rakes at the reader's conscience in this powerful, uninhibited feminist collection. Oscillating between provocative...
The Explicit Body in Performance
Rebecca Schneider£25.59 £31.99
The Explicit Body in Performance interrogates the avant-garde precedents and theoretical terrain that combined to produce feminist performance art. Among the many artists discussed are: Carollee Schneemann, Annie Sprinkle, Karen Finley, Robbie McCauley, Ana Mendieta, Ann Magnuson, Sandra...
Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance
Amber Jamilla Musser£17.59 £21.99
In Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. To do so, she works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and...
Beijing Xingwei: contemporary chinese time-based art
Meiling Cheng£24.00 £30.00
From cannibalism to light-calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the past...
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