The black figure has always been a subject of entertainment in popular culture, as well as an image to sell things. In some ways, that’s how people relate to us—because they’ve seen us on television.
—
Derrick Adams
Lisa Lyon by Robert Mapplethorpe
- Mary Mhoon by Allen Frame
- The Grand Kabuki: Onoe Kuroemon II by Robert Aaron
- Rockets Redglare by Mark Magill
- Cuba, El Salvador: Gianfranco Gorgoni by Betsy Sussler
- The Head Gargoyle: H. M. Koutoukas by Cookie Mueller
- James McLure by Betsy Sussler
- James Purdy by Allen Frame
- Joan Tewkesbury by David Seidner
- JoAnne Akalaitis by Craig Gholson
- Maria Duval by Suzanne Mallouk
- Nightshift by Allen Frame
Interviews
- 478 by David Seidner
- Cathode Cruel by Susan Landau
- Umarla Klasa: The Dead Class by Tadeusz Kantor
First Proof
- Steam Room. Fairgrounds, New Orleans by Henry Horenstein
- Brothers in Havana, Brothers in Brooklyn by Ronald Girard
- Caribe Festival by Jacki Ochs
- Strange Fire by James Perry Walker
- Theseus by Theadora Van Runkle
- Portrait of a Young Woman in Fur Robe after Rubens by Diane Blell
- Jerry Lewis and Robert DeNiro, 69th and Madison between takes of Kings of Comedy by Kate Simon
- Flagday by Gregory Lawrence Lehmann
- At the Riverside Theatre, London by Alan Kleinberg
- Lisa Lyon by Robert Mapplethorpe
- Francesco Clemente by Jeannette Montgomery Barron
- Two Works by Thomas Ellis & Darrel Ellis
- China Still Life by Christopher Makos
- Coat Hanger by Jimmy DeSana
- Silk Hat (detail) by Ellen Brooks
- Untitled Collage by Deborah Turbeville
- New Mexico by Amanda Means
- Cathexsis 48 by Joseph Kosuth
- Glossolalia by Barbara Kruger & Sarah Charlesworth
More
Originally published in
BOMB 5,
Spring 1983
JoAnne Akalaitis, Gianfranco Gorgoni, H. M. Koutoukas, Rockets Redglare, Mary Mhoon, James McLure, Nightshift, Onue Kuroeman II, James Purdy, Maria Duval, and Joan Tewkesbury.
