{"title":"Books by Philippa Snow","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781913462468","title":"Which as You Know Means Violence","description":"A blending of art and pop cultural criticism about people who injure themselves for our entertainment or enlightenment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA few weeks before he died, Hunter S. Thompson left an answerphone message for \u003ci\u003eJackass'\u003c\/i\u003e Johnny Knoxville: \"I might be coming to Baton Rouge... and if I do I will call you, because I will be looking to have some fun, which as you know usually means violence.\" Fun does not, of course, mean violence for most people. Those who choose to make a hobby, a career or an art practice out of injury are wired differently — subject to unusual motivations, and quite often powered by an ardent death-drive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWhich as You Know Means Violence\u003c\/i\u003e, writer and art critic Philippa Snow analyses the subject of pain, injury and sadomasochism in performance, from the more rarefied context of contemporary art to the more lowbrow realm of pranksters, stuntmen and stuntwomen, and uncategorisable, danger-loving YouTube freaks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a world where violence — of the market, of climate change, of capitalism — is part of our everyday lives, \u003ci\u003eWhich as You Know Means Violence\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on those who enact violence on themselves, for art or entertainment, and analyses the role that violence plays in twenty-first century culture.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43406669742258,"sku":"9781913462468","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913462468_b1f9eadd-b505-4c9b-bea3-13b2f7516657.jpg?v=1786030299"},{"product_id":"9780349017716","title":"It's Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e*One of the Telegraph's Greatest Books of 2025*'I love Philippa Snow's writing, truly and deeply' Lena Dunham'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity ... a joy to read, fizzing with intelligence' Megan Nolan, Telegraph'Wildly entertaining' Dazed'Snow's prose is beautiful, white-hot and breathless, like a sports car speeding through the canyon' Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does an icon become an icon? How did Anna Nicole Smith model herself on Marilyn Monroe? What connects Lindsay Lohan with Elizabeth Taylor? How is self-made beauty Pamela Anderson like trans Bond girl Caroline 'Tula' Cossey?In a series of interconnected essays about pairs of famous women, award-nominated essayist and art critic Philippa Snow explores the echoes and connections between a constellation of female stars and lays bare the artful and gruelling demands of femininity - from the golden age of Hollywood to the Instagram era. Full of the fascinating, entertaining and lurid details you might expect from the lives of mega-famous celebrities, dissected with icicle-sharp intelligence and rendered in stylish, flamboyant prose, Philippa Snow's first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685699232117,"sku":"9780349017709","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":55897793495413,"sku":"9780349017716","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349017709.jpg?v=1792598853"},{"product_id":"9781580937405","title":"Post Human","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA renewed examination of Jeffrey Deitch’s pivotal exhibition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally exhibited in 1992, Jeffrey Deitch’s groundbreaking exhibition \u003ci\u003ePost Human\u003c\/i\u003e brought together the work of thirty-six young artists interested in new frontiers of body and identity transformation. The prescient exhibition, which traveled to five international venues, introduced the art world to posthumanism - how the human body continues to merge with and diverge from technology. Both the show and it catalogue, which featured a unique visual essay and innovative design, helped set the agenda for art discourse in the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than thirty years later, Deitch revitalized \u003ci\u003ePost Human \u003c\/i\u003eat his Los Angeles gallery, bringing the themes of the original back to the present. The show’s 2024 iteration presented several key figures who participated in the original exhibition in dialogue with emerging contemporary artists whose boundary-pushing work explores how these themes, particularly recent forms of technology such as AI, have evolved over the course of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis timely publication revisits artworks from both iterations of the show. Readers will discover color photography of the featured works, along with Deitch’s iconic visual essay from the original catalogue and text contributions from contemporary philosopher Rosi Braidotti and critic Philippa Snow. Together, they form a printed testament to the show’s indelible impact and Deitch’s everlasting influence on the art world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeatured artists include: Isabelle Albuquerque, Matthew Barney, Ivana Bašić, Frank Benson, Ashley Bickerton, Maurizio Cattelan, Chris Cunningham, John Currin, Alex Da Corte, Olivia Erlanger, Jana Euler, Rachel Feinstein, Urs Fischer, Pippa Garner, Robert Gober, Hugh Hayden, Damien Hirst, Tishan Hsu, Pierre Huyghe, Anne Imhof, Alex Israel, Arthur Jafa, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Mike Kelley, Josh Kline, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Sam McKinniss, Mariko Mori, Takashi Murakami, Wangechi Mutu, Cady Noland, Charles Ray, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Hajime Sorayama, Anna Uddenberg, Cajsa von Zeipel, Jeff Wall, Jordan Wolfson, and Anicka Yi.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369037640053,"sku":"9781580937405","price":34.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781580937405_b29e2854-c41f-48ab-87a8-c0dec1d92495.jpg?v=1786023108"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-philippa-snow.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}