The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec Number 4
Number four (pages 134-172) from a series of six chapbooks by Kathy Acker comprising her Dada-inspired, cut-up postmodern novel The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec. Published by Black Tarantula in 1975 and subtitled “How Love Can Lead Youngsters to Murder.” Side-stapled wrappers. Per Printed Matter, Acker was born in New York in 1947 and became involved in the avant-garde art and punk scene of the East Village in the 1970s and early 1980s. She became known for her unabashed portrayals of sex combined with astute literary and critical theory references in her writing. Pushing back against the assumption that those who took up sex and popular culture as subject matter were less intelligent, Acker used these themes as a trojan horse for her hard hitting theoretical content. Acker’s experimentation with the appropriation of texts, drawing from a wide range of sources, ushered her into international recognition as one of the first postmodern writers. Light rubbing to extremities. Scarce.
Number four (pages 134-172) from a series of six chapbooks by Kathy Acker comprising her Dada-inspired, cut-up postmodern novel The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec. Published by Black Tarantula in 1975 and subtitled “How Love Can Lead Youngsters to Murder.” Side-stapled wrappers. Per Printed Matter, Acker was born in New York in 1947 and became involved in the avant-garde art and punk scene of the East Village in the 1970s and early 1980s. She became known for her unabashed portrayals of sex combined with astute literary and critical theory references in her writing. Pushing back against the assumption that those who took up sex and popular culture as subject matter were less intelligent, Acker used these themes as a trojan horse for her hard hitting theoretical content. Acker’s experimentation with the appropriation of texts, drawing from a wide range of sources, ushered her into international recognition as one of the first postmodern writers. Light rubbing to extremities. Scarce.
Number four (pages 134-172) from a series of six chapbooks by Kathy Acker comprising her Dada-inspired, cut-up postmodern novel The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec. Published by Black Tarantula in 1975 and subtitled “How Love Can Lead Youngsters to Murder.” Side-stapled wrappers. Per Printed Matter, Acker was born in New York in 1947 and became involved in the avant-garde art and punk scene of the East Village in the 1970s and early 1980s. She became known for her unabashed portrayals of sex combined with astute literary and critical theory references in her writing. Pushing back against the assumption that those who took up sex and popular culture as subject matter were less intelligent, Acker used these themes as a trojan horse for her hard hitting theoretical content. Acker’s experimentation with the appropriation of texts, drawing from a wide range of sources, ushered her into international recognition as one of the first postmodern writers. Light rubbing to extremities. Scarce.
