Books

Selected Press Books Magazines and Newspapers Online and Podcasts Video
2016
Avant-Garde from Below: Transgressive Performance from Iggy Pop to Joe Coleman and GG Allin

Clemens Marschall’s book Avant-garde from Below: Transgressive Performance from Iggy Pop to Joe Coleman and GG Allin is an account, through the 20th century and beyond, of a dangerous bastardisation of punk spirit and avant-garde theory. Three very unique characters trace a line through this history of precarious transgression in the fringes of popular culture: Iggy Pop, who was punk before punk; Joe Coleman, who distanced himself from the then-existing punk scene; and GG Allin, who died for what he thought was punk, thus putting the final nail in the coffin of the ‘avant-garde from below’.

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2012
Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away

A chapter on Joe Coleman.

2012
The New York Grimpendium

Joe Coleman is featured in a chapter in this book.

2011
My Work and Me

Curator Susanne Pfeffer interviews ,ore than 30 artists attempting to address their coexistence with their work, including Joe Coleman, John Baldessari, Fischli & Weiss, and Wolfgang Tillmans.

1997
The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night

by Anthony Haden-Guest. New York: William Morrow, 1997. Descriptions of Coleman’s Performance Art in his “Dark Stars” chapter. (See Haden-Guest essay, in The Book of Joe, p. 23).

1995
Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression

by Jack Sargeant. London and San Francisco: Creation Books, 1995. (Includes Coleman interview; seen in context as a “collaborator” in the subcultural movement centering on NYC underground film; see Film section, p. 213.)

1994
Argonaut “Crazies!” issue, Spring 1994

San Francisco. Illustrated article by Martin Wilner. Cover: Self-Portrait (1986)

1994
On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century

Book chapter by C. Carr. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press

1987
RE/Search #11: Pranks!

Interview by Andrea Juno

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