CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/17/2016

Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is?

"Take Down" (1963) is reproduced from Who Does She Think She Is?—incredibly—the first major monograph on the "madly and transgressively" uninhibited painter, sculptor, playwright, novelist, critic and sometime professional wrestler, Rosalyn Drexler. Contributor Jonathan Lethem writes, "Rosalyn Drexler, I thought to myself... She'd been praised by Donald Barthelme and Norman Mailer and Annie Dillard and Gloria Steinem and somehow shrugged it all off and stayed underground, irascible, implausible… she touched Pop, she touched Pulp, she touched Porn, she appropriated and satired and surrealed and film-noired, all with an intimacy and eccentricity that made the work a genre of its own."