Erin Cosgrove
The Baader-Meinhof Affair
New York City, USA: Printed Matter Inc., 2003
248 pp., 17 x 10.5 cm., softcover
Edition of 3000
The first publication from Printed Matter's Publishing Program for Emerging Artists parodies the romance novel with a tempestuous tale of true love and terrorism. In the cloistered environment of an exclusive East Coast college, students fall in love while romancing the ghosts of the '70s Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang.
The Red Army Faction, as they would later be called, were born from the radical student movement of the late sixties, and was comprised of mainly middle-class youth, who aimed to liberate the country from capitalism. Their tactics included department store bombings, bank robberies, political assinations, the hijacking of a commercial airplane, and the seizue of the German Embassy in Sweden.
"Erin Cosgrove’s take on romantic fiction as conceptual art project, The Baader-Meinhof Affair, sounds like The Rules of Attraction if Bret Easton Ellis had gone to Williams instead of Bennington."
- Greg Allen
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