Title: Shock treatment /
Authors: Finley, Karen,; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Year: 2015
Subjects: ART / Performance.; ART / Art & Politics.; ART / Popular Culture.; ART / Conceptual.; Monologues; Performance art United States; Monologues; Performance art; United States
Abstract: "Shock Treatment is Karen Finley's first book, published just as she became internationally famous for being denied an NEA grant because of perceived obscenity in her work. In it, she captures the drama and fragility of the AIDS era and distills the emotional turmoil of that time with excoriating monologues and essays. With a new introductory essay by the author"--