BOMB 123/Spring 2013
The late Gretchen Bender created “high tech” art when “high tech” was still an accepted turn of phrase. Here, she talks to Cindy Sherman about the appropriation and manipulation of TV commercials, images from the news, and contemporary art.
Famed writer, editor, filmmaker, and publisher Charles Henri Ford speaks of his early years in Paris, his theory of collage, and how he came to obtain a nude photograph of Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith.
Authors Martin Amis and Patrick McGrath discuss Amis’s novel, Money, a black comedy set in New York and London, featuring the misadventures of a large and ugly filmmaker named John Self, a man “addicted to the 20th century.”
An excerpt from Charles Henri Ford’s diary Water from a Bucket, 1948–1957. This content is only available in print.
Disillusioned musings on airtravel, titled “X≠Y,” by Susan Daitch. This article is only available in print.
Director Roland Joffe discusses the films The Killing Fields and The Mission; growing up in post- war London; and transitioning from theater to television to film.
Drawing by Brice Marden from the Selected Similarities portfolio. This article is only available in print.
Gouache on paper work, titled Angst, by John Wells. This article is only available in print.
Drawing by Robert Gober from the Selected Similarities portfolio. This article is only available in print.
Drawing by Louise Bourgeois from the Selected Similarities portfolio. This article is only available in print.
POETRY IN TRANSLATION: INDIA, “Rubà i I,” “Rubà i IV,” “Underdone,” “Night falls with a broken wing,” and “Untitled,” written and translated from the Urdu by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi. This article is only available in print.
POETRY IN TRANSLATION: INDIA, “In Bhilai,” “For Guillevick and Genevieve,” “Apocalypse,” “A Prayer,” and “By Words Too,” by Ashok Vajpeyi. This article is only available in print.
Four poems, titled “On The Road,” “Observing Billy,” “Cross Country,” and “My Man,” by Alice Rose George. This article is only available in print.
POETRY IN TRANSLATION: INDIA, “The Turnaround,” “Temperature Normal; Pulse, Respiration Satisfactory,” “Malkhamb,” and “Old Newspapers,” by Arun Kolatkar. This article is only available in print.
What starts as an innocent encounter between expats and an invitation to a Berber wedding ends in drugs, a police bust, and rape, titled “Marrakesh,” by Catherine Texier. This article is only available in print.
A trip to Queens for some pills to deal, “Merry Christmas, Dr. Title,” by Eileen Myles. This article is only available in print.
Oil on canvas painting, titled Monday Morning Early, by Peter Nadin. This article is only available in print.
Oil on masonite painting, titled Saning Sari, by Marilyn Lerner. This article is only available in print.
Portfolio of drawings by emerging and established contemporary artists curated by Roberto Juarez. This article is only available in print.
POETRY IN TRANSLATION: INDIA, “Song of the Earth,” by M. Gopalakrishna Adiga. This article is only available in print.
Stomach from Possession is Nine Tenths of the Law, a 1985 portfolio of color monoprints, by Kiki Smith. This article is only available in print.
Drawing by Michael Hurson from the Selected Similarities portfolio. This article is only available in print.
Enamel on chrome coat paper works by Izhar Patkin—Virtue and Village from The Black Paintings and Night at the Balagany. This article is only available in print.
Two bronze sculptures, titled Madame as Recamier and Untitled; and acrylic painting on canvas, titled Flood of Values, by Gary Stephan. This article is only available in print.
Two untitled watercolor paintings with graphite on paper, Untitled, by Stephen Ellis. This article is only available in print.
Two untitled polaroids by Ellen Carey. This article is only available in print.
Two photographs by Annette Lemieux—Courting Death, sepia print; and Class of ‘39 ciba print. This article is only available in print.
POETRY IN TRANSLATION: INDIA, “The Bullock” and “A Name For My Little Daughter,” by Kedarnath Singh. Translations by Mrinal Pande and M. Halpearn. This article is only available in print.
Two works by Saint Claire Cemin—Bell, bronze, 1986 and Logasimuli, ink, 1986. This article is only available in print.
Two ink on paper works, titled The Loss of a Planet and Untitled, by Lucio Pozzi. This article is only available in print.
