Love and the Paraliterary: On Barbara Kruger’s Picture/Readings
Barbara Kruger’s work has come to represent a host of negative affects for art historians and critics, and it is…
William J. Simmons
Too Old to Die Young
In her 1975 poem “Liebestod,” Gwen Head writes of a girl on a beach who sunbathes with a glittering gun…
A Certain Inevitability
Movie Night is a column exploring film semiotics and thoughts about moviegoing in general. Oigo el llorido del mar, el…
Somebody Wants It
“Thus, one of the things that anyone’s character or personality is is a record of the highly individual histories by…
Narrative Excess: Judy Chicago's Work in Text
“I feel as though I’m still not writing. I foresee and want a way of speaking that’s more fanciful, more…
Betty Tompkins
In 1969, Betty Tompkins (b. 1945, USA; lives in New York and Mount Pleasant, PA) began her series of “Fuck…