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Antonin Artaud(Updated)
द्वारा Stephen Barber
Paperback, 198 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2002 द्वारा Stephen Barber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-17252-8, ISBN: 0-571-17252-0

"The first comprehensive and authoritative account of the life and work of the man who changed the course of modern theatre. Antonin Artaud is one of the great cultural legends of the twentieth century. His Theatre of Cruelty altered the course of modern theatre, and his experiments with the Surrealist movement have proved inspirational throughout Europe and America, But Artaud's life was one of terrible failure and confrontation, an exp ..."

Edmund White(Updated)
The Burning World: a Biography
द्वारा Stephen Barber
Paperback, 320 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2000 द्वारा Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-37653-2, ISBN: 0-330-37653-5

"Edmund White is one of the most extraordinary writers of our time and this is the first biography to delve into the heart and soul of an almost iconic figure."

Prix Pictet 05(Updated)
Consumption
द्वारा Stephen Barber, Michael Benson, Prix Pictet 05, Not Available
Hardcover, 128 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2014 द्वारा Teneues
ISBN-13: 978-3-8327-9814-7, ISBN: 3-8327-9814-5

"The Prix Pictet has rapidly established itself as the world's leading prize in photography and sustainability. The award aims to uncover outstanding photography that confronts the most pressing social and environmental challenges of today. The theme of the fifth cycle and this volume is "Consumption." Consumption is a multi-faceted theme, rich with creative potential. We are all consumers. We have invented new forms of building, industr ..."

Abandoned Images(Updated)
Film and Film's End
द्वारा Stephen Barber
Digital, 192 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2012 द्वारा Reaktion Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-720-6, ISBN: 1-86189-720-0

"Broadway Avenue in downtown Los Angeles contains an extraordinary collection of twelve abandoned movie theatres, all built between 1910 and 1931. In most cities worldwide, such a concentration of old film palaces would have been demolished long ago, but in a city whose identity is inseparable from the film industry, the buildings have survived mainly intact, some with interiors that are dilapidated or gutted, while others have been tran ..."

Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers(Updated)
द्वारा Pierre Guyotat, First Last, Stephen Barber
Paperback, 392 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2009 द्वारा Solar Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9820464-2-5, ISBN: 0-9820464-2-1

"Tomb For 500,000 Soldiersâ Pierre Guyotat's unique elision of brutal warfare and sexual ecstasy, is regularly acclaimed as the greatest French novel of modern times. Completed when its author was only twenty-five and never before published in English the only copy of a previous translation was destroyed by fire it now appears in a brilliant new version which retains all of the original's detonating sensory power. Guyotat hallucinated th ..."

Caligula(Updated)
Divine Carnage: Atrocities of the Roman Emperors (Solar Blood History)
द्वारा Stephen Barber, Jeremy Reed, First Last, Foreword-James Havoc, James Havoc
Paperback, 156 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2006 द्वारा Solar Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9714578-1-2, ISBN: 0-9714578-1-6

"This work is a new edition of a recent classic. Caligula was the most notorious of the Roman Emperors, who seduced his own sister, installed a horse in the Roman Senate, turned his palace into a brothel, married a prostitute, tortured and killed innocent citizens on a whim, and committed countless other acts of madness, cruelty and deviancy. Award-winning writers, Stephen Barber and Jeremy Reed document in full the atrocities of Caligul ..."

Eden Eden Eden(Updated)
द्वारा Pierre Guyotat, Stephen Barber, Roland Barthes
Paperback, 192 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2009 द्वारा Solar Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9799847-4-7, ISBN: 0-9799847-4-2

"EDEN EDEN EDEN is Pierre Guyotat's legendary novel of atrocity and extreme obscenity, a classic of modern French literature taught on numerous University courses. Set in a polluted and apocalyptic zone of the Algerian desert in a time of civil warfare, this delirious, lacerating novel brings scenes of brutal carnage into intimate collision with relentless acts of prostitutional sex and humiliation. Eden, Eden, Eden first came out in Fra ..."

Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist(Updated)
द्वारा Antonin Artaud, Introduction-Stephen Barber, Alexis Lykiard, Friedrich Nietzsche
Paperback, 154 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2006 द्वारा Solar Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9714578-0-5, ISBN: 0-9714578-0-8

"This title is a new edition of a classic. Antonin Artaud's novelised biography of the 3rd-century Roman Emperor, "Heliogabalus" is simultaneously his most accessible and his most extreme book. Written in 1933, at the time when Artaud was preparing to stage his legendary "Theatre of Cruelty", "Heliogabalus" is a powerful concoction of sexual excess, self-deification and terminal violence. Reflecting its author's preoccupations of the tim ..."

The Art of Destruction(New edition)
The Vienna Action Group in Film, Performance & Revolt (Paperback)
द्वारा Stephen Barber
Paperback, 144 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2020 द्वारा Solar Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9832480-1-9, ISBN: 0-9832480-1-X

"1.The Origins Of The Vienna Action Group --2.Otto Muehl --3.Gunter Brus --4.Hermann Nitsch --5.Rudolf Schwarzkogler --6.Art Crimes And Exile --7.The Films Of The Vienna Action Group --8.Kurtkren --9.Ernst Schmidt Jr --10.Performance/Film - ..."