Dorothy Iannone: A Cookbook

  A facsimile of artist Dorothy Iannone's notorious, emotionally and sexually charged 1969 recipe book The artist as cook and lover Since the 1960s, Dorothy Iannone has attempted to represent ecstatic love, “the union of gender, feeling, and pleasure.” Today her oeuvre, encompassing painting, drawing, collage, video, sculpture, objects, and artist’s books, is widely recognized as one of the most provocative and fruitful bodies of work in recent decades in terms of the liberalization of female sexuality, and political and feminist issues. As Robert Filliou stated as early as in 1972, “She is a freedom fighter, and a forceful and dedicated artist, skillfully blending imagery and text, beauty and truth. Her aim is no less than human liberation.” A narrative element fed with personal mythologies, experiences, feelings, and relationships runs through all of her work, unified by her distinctive colorful, explicit, and comic book style. Created in 1969, when she was living with Swiss artist