Still lives
(2018)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/HUMMEL,M

Availability

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Details

PUBLISHED
Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press, 2018
EDITION
First hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION

277 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781619021112, 1619021110
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women--the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others--and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. As the city's richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum's opening night, all the staff, including editor Maggie Richter, hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution's flailing finances. Except Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala. Fear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing