Cooper, Dennis 1953-

Tom Friedman by Bruce Hainley ( Book )
6 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 559 libraries worldwide
From the Publisher: Tom Friedman is an unusual young American sculptor who produces quirky yet beautiful sculptures out of household objects-pencils, plastic cups, laundry detergent, paper straws. Featured in cream and in a one-person presentation at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Friedman has quickly gained an impressive following of some of the most attentive and influential contemporary art-watchers in the United States. This is art which raises questions about the making and seeing of art, about the pleasures of small transformations producing sudden beauty. This book will coincide with Friedman's first major American museum tour, to be held in 2000-2002. American art critic Bruce Hainley examines the artist's work as a kind of giant self-portrait. Poet and novelist Dennis Cooper discusses with the artist such unexpected influences as contemporary electronic music. Guardian art critic Adrian Searle looks at the artist's work Untitled, 1993-a ring of plastic cups in a home-made Minimalist tradition. The Artist's Choices are The Dinner Party (1919) by Swiss writer Robert Walser, and the glossary to Info-Psychology (1975-76) by Timothy Leary, the cult psychologist who advocated the use of psychedelic drugs. Facsimiles of the artist's notebooks and text works are published alongside an important interview by curator Robert Storr.

Raymond Pettibon by Robert Storr ( Book )
3 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 455 libraries worldwide
"California-based artist Raymond Pettibon began making his signature ink-wash drawings framed or pinned directly on the wall, they are often combined by the dozens in no discernible order, like a giant scattered notebook. With solo exhibitions worldwide including a retrospective at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1994), Pettibon is considered one of the world's most significant innovators of figurative art. Poet and novelist Dennis Cooper speaks with the artist about recurring obsessions such as baseball, film noir, surfers and the animated figure Gumby. Museum of Modern Art curator Robert Storr examines the full scope of Pettibon's prolific career, setting the artist firmly within the tradition of Western figurative painting. Critic and curator Ulrich Loock looks at a single strand in Pettibon's oeuvre: a drawing centering on the character Vavoom. The artist has chosen three extracts from The Art of English Poesie by George Puttenham, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, and Modern Painters by John Ruskin. This book also includes never-before-published scripts from as-yet-unmade videos on subjects from Jim Morrison to Hollywood."--BOOK JACKET.

God Jr by Dennis Cooper ( Book )
5 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in English and French and held by 422 libraries worldwide
Aux Etats-Unis, l'histoire d'un père qui survit à son fils après un accident de voiture dont il est le responsable.

Try by Dennis Cooper ( Book )
9 editions published between 1994 and 2004 in 4 languages and held by 352 libraries worldwide
A look at Ziggy's world, the adopted teen-age son of two gay men. A catalogue of child abuse, rape, sexual promiscuity and drugs. Through it all Ziggy tries to keep his bearings by writing a journal.

Essential Acker : the selected writings of Kathy Acker by Kathy Acker ( Book )
4 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 297 libraries worldwide
The incredible variety of AckerUs body of work has been distilled into a single volume that reads like a communique from the front lines of late-20th century America. Acker was a literary pirate whose prodigious output drew promiscuously from popular culture, the classics of Western civilization, current events, and the raw material of her own life.

Frisk by Dennis Cooper ( Book )
16 editions published between 1991 and 2006 in 7 languages and held by 296 libraries worldwide
A 13 ans, Dennis, le narrateur, découvre une série de photographies représentant un garçon dont le corps a été incroyablement mutilé. Cela provoque un déclic dans l'esprit tumultueux de l'adolescent, qui décide de partir pour l'Europe et donner libre cours à son imagination. Commence alors une descente dans le monde de la violence gratuite avec comme point culminant... un meurtre imaginaire.

Period by Dennis Cooper ( Book )
5 editions published between 2000 and 2004 in English and French and held by 288 libraries worldwide
Set in a spare, smoke-and-mirror-filled world of secret Web sites, Goth bands, Satanism, pornography, and Outsider art, "Period" is a literary disappearing act as mysterious as it is logical. "(Cooper) is one of the few serious writers working in the literary tradition of subversion."--"Salon."

Guide by Dennis Cooper ( Book )
4 editions published between 1997 and 2000 in English and French and held by 275 libraries worldwide
A writer in Los Angeles visits the world of burnt-out youth as part of researching a novel. He describes the violence, joins them in taking drugs, has sex with boys and describes death from aids. A tale of perversity.

Closer by Dennis Cooper ( Book )
11 editions published between 1989 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 260 libraries worldwide
Une descente dans les obsessions de l'Amérique contemporaine, un train fantôme dévalant les pentes du désir et plongeant vers la mort sur fond de rock'n'roll. Tous repères effondrés, toute morale abolie, ses personnages semblent évoluer dans une dimension parallèle dont le sexe, la drogue et les films d'horreur de série Z seraient les dernières balises.

My loose thread by Dennis Cooper ( Book )
7 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and French and held by 248 libraries worldwide