The Pleasure Principle at Maccarone wavers between issues of women’s representation and those of pornography and art, without fully committing to either.
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Personal Anxieties and Institutional Strictures Rendered in Wire and String
With a dark humor that partially stems from her youth in the former Czechoslovakia, Kot’átková explores the private self within institutional and ideological constructs.
The Poet-Magus of the Lower East Side
Imagine the following scenario: You and your wife live on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. You start a greeting card company, Ink Weed Arts, in 1951, just after the two of you get married. You are a poet and she is a dancer who works as a hand and foot model in advertising. The two of you want to offer an alternative to the insipid messages of Hallmark Cards.