- Marquis de Sade
Donatien Alphonse-François de Sade (pronounced) was a French aristocrat and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography. He was a philosopher of extreme freedom (or at least licentiousness), unrestrained by morality, religion or law, with the pursuit of personal pleasure being the highest principle. Sade was incarcerated in various prisons and in an insane asylum for about 32 years of his life (a year in Paris, 10 years in the Bastille, … - Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. Pasolini distinguished himself as a philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, in the process becoming a highly controversial figure. - Sister Kitty Catalyst O.C.P.
Sister Kitty Catalyst O.C.P. (of the Catnip Patch) is a San Francisco based social activist, AIDS educator, writer, performance artist and underground fixture in San Francisco's bohemian landscape mainly serving the queer (lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, transgender and kink) communities. She is one of the notorious Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and has orchestrated political actions, … - Lung Leg
Born Elizabeth Carr in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Lung Leg is best known for appearing on the cover of the Sonic Youth album "EVOL". The pin-up girl and star of the transgressive movement, she disappeared as quickly as she rose to fame. She appeared in several Richard Kern movies, including the starring role in one of his longest features "You Killed Me First", as well as "Fingered", … - Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author. He is considered to be one of the major Generation X authors and was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He has called himself a moralist, although he has often been pegged as a nihilist. His characters are young, generally vacuous people, who are aware of their depravity but choose to enjoy it. - Crispin Glover
Crispin Hellion Glover (born April 20, 1964) is an American primarily known as a film actor, but is also a painter, filmmaker, author, musician, and collector and archivist of esoterica. Glover is known for portraying eccentric people on screen, such as George McFly in "Back to the Future" and Willard Stiles in "Willard". In the early 2000s, Glover started his own production company, Volcanic Eruptions. - Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is an English artist and the most prominent of the group that has been dubbed "Young British Artists" (or YBAs). He dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s and is internationally renowned. Death is a central theme in his work. He is best known for his "Natural History" series, in which dead animals (such as a shark, a sheep or a cow) are preserved, sometimes cut-up, in formaldehyde. - David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, video artist, and performance artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations, for his direction of "The Elephant Man" (1980), "Blue Velvet" (1986), and "Mulholland Drive" (2001). He has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. - James Gunn
James Gunn (born August 5, 1970, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American writer, film maker, actor, musician and cartoonist. - Tom Green
Tom Green (born Michael Thomas Green on July 30, 1971) is a Canadian comedian, actor and a television host who is currently hosting "Tom Green Live". Born in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, Green grew up in suburban Ottawa. He pioneered a type of "shock humor" that begat "Jackass", "Fear Factor", and other reality shows. - Dean Cavanagh
Dean Cavanagh is a popular and successful journalist, screenwriter, DJ, and dance music musician, from Cottingley, West Yorkshire. He was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in 1966. Dean Cavanagh started his writing career in freelance journalism contributing to UK magazines such as The Face, Melody Maker, I-D & New Musical Express. In 1990, in the height of the acid house culture, … - Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski was an influential Los Angeles poet and novelist. Bukowski's writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles. He is often mentioned as an influence by contemporary authors, and his style is frequently imitated. A prolific author, Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short-stories, and six novels, eventually having more than fifty books in print. - J. G. Ballard
James Graham Ballard (born November 15, 1930 in Shanghai) is a British writer. He was a prominent member of the New Wave in science fiction. His best known books are the controversial "Crash", and the autobiographical novel "Empire of the Sun", both of which have been adapted to film. The adjective "Ballardian", defined as "resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in JG Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, … - Gg Allin
GG Allin (29 August 1956 - 28 June 1993) was a punk singer and bandleader who performed and recorded with many groups during his career. He is best remembered for his notorious live performances that typically featured wildly transgressive acts such as Allin defecating and urinating onstage, rolling in excrement, committing self-injury, performing naked, taunting people to perform fellatio on him, and violent actions toward the audience. - Vaginal Davis
Vaginal Davis (b. February 20, 1969) is a drag queen, performance artist, painter, independent curator, composer, and writer. Davis's name is an homage to the radical black feminist Angela Davis. - Maurice Blanchot
Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. - Joe Coleman
Joe Coleman (born November 22 1955) is an American illustrator and painter. - Lloyd Kaufman
Lloyd Kaufman is an American film director and producer. With producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment. He is the director of many of Troma's feature films. His early Troma films are credited to Samuel Weil, a pseudonym (actually the name of Kaufman's maternal great-grandfather) which Kaufman used to skirt Directors Guild of America rules. - Larry Clark
Larry Clark (born 1 January 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is most well known for the movie "Kids". His most common subject is youth on the fringe of society who casually engage in underage and illegal drug use, violence or sex and who are part of a subculture like punk or skateboarding that "accepts" these activities. - Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing and performance. - John Waters
John Waters (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, personality, visual artist and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. - Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons (born January 21, 1955), is an American artist. He is noted for his use of kitsch imagery using painting, sculpture and other forms, often in large scale. - Boyd Rice
Boyd Blake Rice (born 1956) is an American experimental sound artist, occultist, archivist, actor, photographer, prankster and writer best known for his pioneering industrial noise music under the name NON. - Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 - August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was also controversial, eventually leading to the first posthumous pardon in New York history. - Jon Coffelt
Jon Coffelt born (May 16,1963) is an American artist who lives and works in Manhattan in the Financial District of New York City. Born and raised in the Tennessee mountains, Coffelt has been painting since he was eight years old. It was his grandfather who taught him how to work in this medium, instructing him on, as Coffelt explains, "how to paint what was on the outside (Visual Ideas) so that one day I would be able to paint what was on the inside (Emotional Ideas). - Franko B
Franko B (born 1960) is an internationally acclaimed London-based performance artist who uses his own body in his art. - Stewart Home
Stewart Home (born 1962) is a writer, subcultural pamphleteer, underground art historian, and activist. His mother, Julia Callan-Thompson, was a model and hostess who was associated with the radical arts scene in Notting Hill Gate. She knew such people as the writer and Situationist Alexander Trocchi. Stewart was put up for adoption soon after his birth. Home is probably best known for his parodistic pulp fictions "Pure Mania", "Red London", "No Pity", … - James Jaxxa
James Jaxxa is an American artist who lives and works in New York City, New York. Jaxxa's work includes painting, sculpture, site specific installation, appropriation and collage. Jaxxa attended School of Visual Arts and Rhode Island School of Design, and earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Michigan State University. - A. M. Homes
Amy M. Homes (born 1961) is an American fiction writer known for her controversial and unusual stories, most notably "The End of Alice" (1996), a novel about a convicted child molester and murderer. She is also the author of the novels "This Book Will Save Your Life" (2006), "Music for Torching" (1999), "In a Country of Mothers" (1993), and "Jack" (1989), … - Karen Finley
Karen Finley (b. 1956, Evanston, Illinois) is a controversial American performance artist, whose theatrical pieces and recordings have often been labelled "obscene" due to their graphic depictions of sexuality, abuse, and disenfranchisement. She was notably one of the NEA Four, four performance artists whose grants from the National Endowment for the Arts were vetoed in 1990 by John Frohnmayer after the process was condemned by Senator Jesse Helms under "decency" issues. - Inger Lorre
Inger Lorre (b. 1964 Lori Wenning) is an American singer who is best known for her bands The Nymphs and Inger Lorre and Motel Shootout. - Nicole Blackman
Nicole Blackman is a New York City-born performance artist, poet, author, vocalist, teacher, and former music industry publicist. She is also a top voiceover artist for television and radio - Seth Putnam
Seth Putnam (born May 15, 1968) is the founder of grindcore band Anal Cunt. Putnam has been involved in many side projects throughout his career, and provided backing vocals on Pantera's "The Great Southern Trendkill". - Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky or Alexandro Jodorowsky (born February 7, 1929, in Tocopilla, Chile) is an actor, playwright, director, producer, composer, mime, comic book writer, psychotherapist and father to musician Adan Jodorowsky and Brontis Jodorowsly. Born to Ashkenazi Jewish parents of Russian origin. In 1973 he adopted Mexican citizenship, but some years later he was naturalized as French. He is particularly known for having directed a handful of esoteric, … - Stu Mead
Stu Mead (b. 1964) is an Iowa born artist currently living in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany. He is known for his bizarre paintings depicting taboo subjects and situations, primarily pedophilia, child sexuality, and scatological fetishism. Several of his pieces are featured in "Apocalypse Culture II", although they are censored due to the extremely controversial nature of his subjects. - Joel-Peter Witkin
Joel-Peter Witkin (born September 13, 1939, in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American photographer. He was born to Jewish father and a Roman Catholic mother. He has a twin brother, Jerome Witkin, who also plays a significant role in the art world for his realistic paintings. His parents divorced when Witkin was young because they were unable to transcend their religious differences. - Mark Ryden
Mark Ryden (b. January 20, 1963 in Medford, Oregon) is an American fine-art painter - H. R. Giger
Hans Ruedi Giger (born at Chur, Grisons canton, February 5, 1940) is an Academy Award-winning Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer best known for his design work on the film "Alien". - Travis Jeppesen
Travis Jeppesen (born September 4, 1979 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is an American novelist and poet. He grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina and moved to New York City at the age of 17. He received his B.A. from Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research (now The New School). He also studied literary translation at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, art history at the Open University, and was mentored by Bruce Benderson. - Lord Buckley
Lord Buckley (b. Richard Myrle Buckley, April 5, 1906 Tuolumne, CA; d. November 12, 1960 New York City) was an eccentric, joyous American monologist.
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