Product Description: Pipilotti Rist makes art to "encourage the mind, guarantee a detached view of social changes and conjure up positive energies." Like certain of her predecessors, such as Frederic Bruly Bouabre, Yayoi Kusama and Yoko Ono, Rist's inventive use of video technology alters our perception of space, our connection to objects and our response to representation...read more

Product Description: The years 1993 and 1994 were bum years for Richard Phillips. Creative years too, since that was when he made the 30-odd drawings in this portfolio. With the air so cold and the heat not working and the rent going unpaid for eight months, Phillips, drawing in his kitchen, conjured one image after another: a homeless man is burned alive by a thug; a deranged blonde cuddles with a white rabbit, certain they must be sisters; a monumental god carved into a temple at Angkor Wat mirrors the face of Alice Cooper--two gods in one! Phillips' sources were discarded newspapers, but if you look behind the mottled surfaces the pictures really derive from the conflicted state of his soul...read more

Product Description: The female nude has been one of the most enduring themes in art. Curve surveys how artists over the course of the last ten years have been sculpting, photographing, and painting the female form. A wide range of work and styles is represented: from the work of John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage, whose inspiration ranges from Old Master painting to Penthouse magazine, respectively, to the sensual nudes of Jock Sturges's photographs to the brazen women who populate fine arts, photography, and fashion work...read more

A New York City junkie and heroin dealer re-evaluates her life when one of her associates reveals her identity to a DEA agent

A woman dealing heroin from her New York City apartment is caught by an undercover federal agent and looks back on her transformation from nice girl with dreams of being a writer to lower East Side junkie.

Product Description: Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, this excellent collection of essays addresses the work of seven artists including Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson, and Tabboo!. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)