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.
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Derrick Adams
Two Drawings by Bruce Conner
- Bernard Cooper by Benjamin Weissman
- Rob Weiss by Susan Shacter
- Gary Lang by Saul Ostrow
- Han Ong by Jessica Hagedorn
- Mike Bidlo by Anney Bonney
- Trisha Brown by Yvonne Rainer
- Gus Van Sant by Gary Indiana
- Francine Prose by Deborah Eisenberg
- Chen Kaige by Peggy Chiao & Lawrence Chua
Interviews
- Still Life With Books by Simon Lane
- Betrayal by Hilary Sio
- Five Days by Max Blagg
- Four Poems by David Mamet
- Three Poems by Dael Orlandersmith
- All Data is Raw by Elena Alexander
- Dark Ice by Thomas Bolt
- tongues of many tongues: Filipino Poetry by Luis Francia
- Two Poems by Ricardo M. de Ungria
- Two Poems by Emmanuel Lacaba
- Two Poems by Ma. Luisa Aguilar-Cariño
- Two Poems by Danton Remoto
- Two Poems by Lina Sagaral Reyes
- Two Poems by Alfred A. Yuson
First Proof
Bruce Conner, Inkblot Drawing 1990, pen and ink on Arches paper, 22¼ x 27 7/8”. Courtesy Curt Marcus Gallery.
Bruce Conner, Untitled, 1992, pen and ink on paper, 23¼ x 29”. Courtesy Curt Marcus Gallery.
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Renee Gladman is the author of ten works of prose and poetry, most recently Calamities, a collection of essay-fictions. Her first monograph of drawings, Prose Architectures, was published by Wave Books in 2017. She lives in New England with the poet-ceremonialist Danielle Vogel.
Originally published in
BOMB 45,
Fall 1993
Featuring interviews with Gus Van Sant, Trisha Brown, Bernard Cooper, Francine Prose by Deborah Eisenberg, Mike Bidlo, Rob Weiss, Han Ong, Chen Kaige, Lawrence Chua, and Garry Lang.
