Bøger af Anwen Crawford

Disappeared artworks, effaced histories, abandoned futures: No Document is an exploration of loss in many forms. It is an elegy for a friendship and artistic partnership cut short by death, an attempt to make a dear friend emerge from a field of memory that also encompasses histories of protest and revolution, art-making, and cinema, border policing and the abattoir. No Document shows how love, kinship, and resistance echo through time.Anwen Crawford is an Australian writer, best known for her writing as a critic, and here she also draws on her background in poetry, visual art and zine-making in a formally daring work of composition and collage. At once intimate and expansive, No Document reimagines the boundaries that divide us-as people, nations, and species-and asks how we can create forms of solidarity that endure.

Courtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain's wife she was derided as an opportunistic groupie; as his widow she is pitied, and scorned, as the madwoman in rock's attic. Yet Hole's second album, Live Through This, awoke a feminist consciousness in a generation of young listeners.Live Through This arrived in 1994, at a tumultuous point in the history of American music. Three years earlier Nirvana's Nevermind had broken open the punk underground, and the first issue of a zine called Riot Grrrl had been published. Hole were of this context and yet outside of it: too famous for the strict punk ethics of riotgrrrl, too explicitly feminist to be the world's biggest rock band.Live Through This is an album about girlhood and motherhood; desire and disgust; self-destruction and survival. There have been few rock albums before or since so intimately concerned with female experience. It is an album that changed lives - so why is Courtney Love's achievement as a songwriter and musician still not taken seriously, two decades on?