Wireless Imagination - Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde (Paperback, New Ed)

Wireless Imagination directly addresses what is perhaps the most conspicuous silence in contemporary theory and art criticism, the silence that surrounds the polyphonous histories of audio and radio art. By gathering both original essays and several newly translated documents into a single volume, editors Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead provide a close audition to some of the most telling and soundful moments in the "deaf century", including the fantastic acoustic scenarios projected through the writings of Raymond Roussel, the "gap music" of Marcel Duchamp, the varied sonic activities of the early Russian avant-garde and of French Surrealism, the language labyrinths constructed by the producers of New German Horspiel, and the cut-up ventriloquism of William S. Burroughs. Approaches in the essays vary from detailed historical reconstructions to more speculative theory, providing a rich chorus of challenges to the culturally entrenched "regime of the visual". Supporting documents include F. T. Marinetti's explosive manifesto on the aesthetics of Futurist radio and the full text of Antonin Artaud's blistering radio performance, To Have Done with the Judgment of God. Although the editors stress in their preface that this book should not be read as a comprehensive Last Word but rather as an opening to future discourse, Wireless Imagination certainly offers compelling evidence that the numbing silence surrounding sound was made to be broken.

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Wireless Imagination
Release date:	July 1994
First published:	1994
Editors:	Douglas Kahn (Professor of Media and Innovation) • Gregory Whitehead
Dimensions:	224 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	468
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-61104-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-262-61104-X
Barcode:	9780262611046

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