Bodies of Work

From art and cinema, through politics, bodybuilding, science fiction and the city, this work reflects and challenges the times in which we live. It offers original views on subjects such as diverse as the films of Peter Greenaway, the paintings of Goya, the writings of Marquis de Sade and copyright in the age of the Internet.

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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.

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"Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other."-The New York Times Kathy Acker is widely considered one of the important writers of the late twentieth century, yet her essays are available only in this comprehensive collection. Bodies of Work maps a wide-ranging cultural territory. From art and cinema, through politics, bodybuilding, science fiction, and the city, they reflect and challenge the times in which we live.