Bodies of Work
Essays
Published on 15. September 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-85242-425-1 (ISBN)
Description
Kathy Acker's essays map a wide ranging cultural territory. From art and cinema, through politics, bodybuilding, science fiction and the city, they both reflect and challenge these times of radical change and puzzlement. Matching guts to theory, anger with compassion, Acker offers original views on the likes of Peter Greenaway, Samuel Delaney, Burroughs, de Sade, and Cronenberg's Crash. Collectively, these essays offer the reader a journey into strangeness, provocation and delight.
Reviews / Votes
Acker is a postmodern Colette with echoes of Cleland's Fanny Hill? Wllilliam S. Burroughs 'Sacrified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other * New York Times *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 135 mm
Width: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85242-425-1 (9781852424251)
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Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and plagiarist, her work - over a dozen novels and novellas - has inspired a generation of writers and artists. She died in 1997.