Imperfect Fit - Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 (Paperback, 3rd)

Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 is an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of connectedness in contemporary art and poetry. Allen Fisher-a highly accomplished poet, painter, critic, and art historian as well as a key figure in the British poetry revival of the 1960s and 1970s-has a close and discerning connection to his subjects. In Imperfect Fit, Fisher focuses on the role of fracturing, ruptures, and breakages in many traditional ties between art and poetry, as well as the resulting use of collage and assemblage by practitioners of those arts. Fisher addresses, among other subjects, destruction as a signifier in twentieth-century art; the poetic employment of bureaucratic vocabularies and "business speak"; and the roles of public performance and memory loss in the fashioning of human knowledge and art. Commonplace notions of coherence, logic, and truth are reimagined and deconstructed in this study, and Fisher concludes by suggesting that contemporary culture offers a particularly robust opportunity-and even necessity-to engage in the production of art as a pragmatic act. Scholars of art, poetry, and aesthetics will be engaged and challenged by this insightful work.

General

Imprint:	The University of Alabama Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Modern & Contemporary Poetics
Release date:	November 2016
Authors:	Allen Fisher
Foreword by:	Pierre Joris
Contributors:	Shamoon Zamir • Paige Mitchell
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
Edition:	3rd
ISBN-13:	978-0-8173-5872-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > General
LSN:	0-8173-5872-2
Barcode:	9780817358723

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