Author: Masha Tupitsyn
Series: Success and Failure Series
Catalogue No: PA-012
Price: 23.95 USD
ISBN: 978-0985508548
Format: Squarebound book
Dimensions: 9 1/4″ x 7 1/4″
Pages: 280pp
Published: Aug 2013
Availability: Ships immediately
“Deep emotion in this age is a radical act.”
—Masha Tupitsyn
About
In 2011, Masha Tupitsyn published LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film, the first book of film criticism written entirely on Twitter. LACONIA experimented with new modes of writing and criticism, updating traditional literary forms and practices like the aphorism and the fragment. Re-imagining the wound-and-quest story, the love narrative, and the female subject in love in the digital age, Love Dog is the second installment in Masha Tupitsyn’s trilogy of immaterial writing. Written as a multi-media blog and inspired by Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse and Mourning Diary—a couple in Tupitsyn’s mind—Love Dog is an art book that is part love manifesto, part philosophical notebook, part digital liturgy.
The trilogy culminates with the 24-hour sound installation Love Sounds, an audio history of love in cinema.
Praise
"[Love Dog] reads like a reboot of Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse, but instead of Goethe, Tupitsyn uses the dense range of twentieth-century popular culture for part of its allegorical infrastructure... Love Dog is not only a gorgeous conceptual work on the self we construct virtually and serially, but also an important work on feminism and visual culture. "
—BOMB
"Love Dog feels like (one version of) what a book should be right now—a print text that’s constantly in conversation with other texts and people and mediums. Masha Tupitsyn is a serious intellectual and a passionate romantic, a critic who knows that criticism is a form of radical love. Ever serious but never dry, she fuses pop-culture critique, philosophy, and personal essay, and flits between different schools of feminist thought to ultimately offer a syncretistic, idiosyncratic feminism that feels hard won and very much her own."
—Bitch Magazine
"Masha Tupitsyn’s Love Dog is a call to the arms of love. Love as ethics. Love as a way of being in the world... Love Dog steers clear of any fairy-tale-like clichés about love and the romantic. True to her feminist vision, Tupitsyn challenges the constructs of masculinity and femininity in love, the roles expected to be performed by each gender respectively."
—Bookslut
"Like all good criticism, [Tupitsyn] takes the esoteric or ineffable elements in art and renders them obvious, instinctive. What is so envy-making about her writing is that she does this with such graciousness that she makes it look easy."
—n+1
Selected Press:
The New Inquiry: “Let Loose the Dogs of Love” by Mairead Case
Electronic Book Review: “Love Will Tear Us Apart, Again” by McKenzie Work
The Conversant: Lara Mimosa Montes in conversation with Masha Tupitsyn
3AM: “From A to X” by Anna Aslanyan
The Believer: “True Lovers are as Rare as Rebels”
Full Stop: Review by Hestia Peppe
BOMB: Review by Carmen Giménez Smith
Rhizome: Wavelength / Love Dog Mixtape by Rebekah Weikel
Hazlitt: “The Internet Killed Books to Save Reading”
Continent: “Ever Since the World Began: A Reading & Interview with Masha Tupitsyn” (link expired)
Author
Masha Tupitsyn is a writer, critic, and multi-media artist. She is the author of the books Picture Cycle (Semiotext(e), 2019), Like Someone in Love: An Addendum to Love Dog (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Love Dog (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), a multi-media art book, LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film (ZerO Books, 2011), Beauty Talk & Monsters, a collection of film-based stories (Semiotext(e) Press, 2007), and co-editor of the anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights, 2009). The final installment in her immaterial trilogy is the sound project, Love Sounds, a 24-hour oral history of love in cinema. Her fiction and criticism have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals.