Publications

Exhibition catalogues and publications from the archive.

  • Kathy Acker — Pussycat Fever, AK Press, 1995. Front cover. Hot pink ground. Centre: illustration by Diane DiMassa of four figures — a punk girl in the foreground, two women behind, a figure in a pointed hat at rear. Purple ink throughout. Title "Pussycat Fever" in large purple block letters upper left. Author and illustrator credits right: "Kathy Acker / illustrated by / Diane DiMassa / and / Freddie Baer". Kathy Acker — Pussycat Fever, AK Press, 1995 — interior spread. Left page: full-page black-and-white illustration by Freddie Baer. A young girl in a dress surrounded by cats and large feline faces — leopard, tiger, domestic cats — rendered in dense Victorian collage style within an ornate floral border. Right page: text beginning "Before I—" in serif type with decorative border.

    Kathy Acker — Pussycat Fever, AK Press, 1995

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    Kathy Acker — Pussycat Fever, AK Press, 1995

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  • Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, New York, 1984. Front cover. Black ground with red border. Large red and white hand-lettered title: "BLOOD AND GUTS IN HIGH SCHOOL". Author name "KATHY ACKER" in white at top. Centre: oil painting illustration by Sue Coe — a dense, dark scene of figures, a cat-like creature in a suit, playing cards, a coffee cup, industrial machinery, and a crescent moon. Grove Press Evergreen logo upper right, price $7.95. Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, 1984 — interior page. Full-page line drawing of a multi-armed deity figure in the style of Indian iconography — Kali-like, with multiple heads arranged in a crown, necklace of skulls, weapons and objects in each hand, standing over a prone figure. Small figures and animals at the margins. Caption in a ruled box at base: "The Devil is an image. Imagine Hell. We grab the book, and run." Cream paper, black ink.

    Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, New York, 1984

    Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, New York, 1984

  • Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992. Japanese edition. Front cover with dust jacket. Cream ground. Upper band: blue speckled paint surface. Lower band: blue-grey layered paint surface, stepped at right edge. Centre white band: Japanese title 血みどろ臓物ハイスクール in large black brushstroke type. English title "BLOOD AND GUTS IN HIGH SCHOOL" in spaced blue capitals at top. "KATHY ACKER" in spaced blue capitals at base. Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, 1992 — interior page. Three-language vocabulary lesson. Left column: Persian/Farsi script. Centre: English handwritten phrases — "father", "see my father!", "my father is dead.", "my father is blue.", "body", "my body is life.", "my body is hot.", "cunt". Right column: Japanese translations in small printed type. White space dominant.

    Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992 (Japanese edition)

    Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992 (Japanese edition)