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A richly illustrated exploration of Mina Loy’s art and writings
Mina Loy (1882–1966) was one of the most iconoclastic figures in
modernism. A groundbreaking poet, she also left an indelible mark
in painting, drawing, prose, art criticism, and fashion. Mina Loy:
Strangeness Is Inevitable is the first book to examine the full
scope of her extraordinary career, demonstrating Loy’s
transformative impact on the visual arts as well as the literary
avant-garde of the twentieth century. Presenting dozens of Loy’s
paintings, drawings, and constructions alongside selections of her
poems and writings, this book gives a comprehensive overview of the
complex images and objects Loy created and situates them in the
larger context of her life and work. It explores Loy’s pursuit of
truth and beauty, arguing that her engagement with the emphatically
“unbeautiful” materials of the Bowery—such as rags and bottle
caps—reflects her questioning of truth. The book positions Loy
within the broader context of surrealist art; sheds light on her
relationships with influential figures such as Gertrude Stein,
Marcel Duchamp, and Wyndham Lewis; and addresses Loy’s enduring
relevance today. Featuring rare and previously unpublished
artworks, Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable reveals this
visionary artist’s extraordinary contributions as an image-maker,
writer, and cultural arbiter, introducing her work to a new
generation of readers and charting new directions in art history,
women’s studies, poetry, and modernist studies. Published in
association with the Bowdoin College Museum of Art Exhibition
Schedule Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine April
6–September 17, 2023
"When you first view Rose-Lynn Fisher's photographs, you might
think you're looking down at the world from an airplane, at dunes,
skyscrapers or shorelines. In fact, you're looking at her tears. .
. . [There's] poetry in the idea that our emotional terrain bears
visual resemblance to the physical world; that our tears can look
like the vistas we see out an airplane window. Fisher's images are
the only remaining trace of these places, which exist during a
moment of intense feeling-and then vanish." -NPR "[A] delicate,
intimate book. . . . In The Topography of Tears photographer
Rose-Lynn Fisher shows us a place where language strains to express
grief, longing, pride, frustration, joy, the confrontation with
something beautiful, the confrontation with an onion." -Boston
Globe Does a tear shed while chopping onions look different from a
tear of happiness? In this powerful collection of images, an
award-winning photographer trains her optical microscope and camera
on her own tears and those of men, women, and children, released in
moments of grief, pain, gratitude, and joy, and captured upon glass
slides. These duotone photographs reveal the beauty of recurring
patterns in nature and present evocative, crystalline imagery for
contemplation. Underscored by poetic captions, they translate the
mysterious act of crying into an atlas mapping the structure and
magnificence of our interior lives. Rose-Lynn Fisher is an artist
and author of the International Photography Award-winning studies
Bee and The Topography of Tears. Her photographs are exhibited in
galleries, festivals, and museums across the world and have been
featured by the Dr. Oz Show, NPR, Smithsonian, Harper's, New
Yorker, Time, Wired, Reader's Digest, Discover, Brain Pickings, and
elsewhere. She received her BFA from Otis Art Institute and lives
in Los Angeles.
In this wildly irreverent collage narrative, Los Angeles artist
Richard Kraft reassembles a pre-perestroika era comic about a
Polish spy infiltrating the Nazis, orchestrating a multiplicity of
voices into joyous cacophony. Like an Indian miniature painting,
each comic book page is densely layered, collapsing foreground and
background, breaking the frame and merging time. An enormous cast
of characters emerges as Kraft appropriates images and texts from
an extraordinary variety of sources (the Amar Chitra Katha comics
of Hindu mythology, Jimmy Swaggart's Old and New Testament stories,
the 1960s English football annual "Scorcher, " underground porn
comics like "Cherry," images from art history, outdated
encyclopedias and more). Kraft constructs a world constantly in
flux, rich with dark humor and revelatory nonsense. Author Danielle
Dutton's interpolations punctuate the book.
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Joe Brainard - The Nancy Book (Hardcover)
Joe Brainard; Edited by Ron Padgett; Text written by Ann Lauterbach, Ted Berrigan, Frank O'Hara
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Art. LGBT Studies. From 1963 through 1978, Joe Brainard created
more than one hundred works of art that appropriated the classic
comic strip character Nancy and sent her into an astonishing
variety of spaces, all electrified by the incongruity of her
presence. THE NANCY BOOK is the first collection of Brainard's
Nancy texts, drawings, collages and paintings, with full page
reproductions of over fifty works, several of which have never been
exhibited or published before. In THE NANCY BOOK, Joe Brainard's
Nancy traverses high art and low, the poetic and pornographic, the
surreal and the absurd. Whether inserted into hypothetical
situations, dispatched on erotic adventures, or seemingly rendered
by the hands of artists as varied as Leonardo da Vinci, R. Crumb,
Larry Rivers, and Willem de Kooning, Brainard's Nancy revels in as
well as transcends her two-dimensionality.
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Wolf Tones (Paperback)
Maximilian Goldfarb, Nancy Shaver, Sterrett Smith; Text written by Stan Allen, Charles Curtis, …
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R572
Discovery Miles 5 720
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From "Before Recollection"
TRANSCENDENTAL POSTCARD
"Ann Lauterbach"
The outlook such that time is told on waking,
Without aid of cock or clock's crow.
In fact all the birds are elsewhere,
Poised on glossy page or in some fall
Migration. Sun up over mountain is precision,
Then mist travels, exhaling day.
All else, all change, is air,
Dew relenting on the blades
And mirror rhymes
Where water bears resemblance:
A strut of hues to pale even Revlon's alchemy and,
In the center of its glaze, a cauldron of sky-cast blue.
A scintillating collection of essays on language from one of
literature's most supple minds
In "The Night Sky," her first work of essays, acclaimed poet Ann
Lauterbach writes of the ways in which art and poetry are integral
and necessary to human conversation. At the center of the book is a
series of seven essays, by turns meditative and polemical, that
articulate the interstices between Lauterbach's poetics and her
experience. She advocates an active encounter with language, at
once imaginative and practical, and argues for the importance of
art to the well- being of a democratic society. Lauterbach's
"nimble and glittering" ("Booklist") writings bring us to a new
understanding of the relationship between self-knowledge and
cultural meaning, as well as demonstrating the ways in which
contemporary philosophy and theory might be integrated with
practical knowledge.
Ann Lauterbach is one of America's most inventive and admired poets. Since the mid-1970s, she has explored the ways in which language simultaneously captures and forfeits our experience. By turns elegiac, fierce, and sensuous, her musically-charged poems subvert distinctions between narrative coherence and fragmentary elision, between outward attention and inward response. Throughout, Lauterbach questions the hope for personal agency within proliferating fields of cultural and historical event. If In Time brings together selections from each of her first five collections, as well as an exhilarating group of new poems.
Literary Nonfiction. Ann Lauterbach considers the animated, elastic
relation between what is given and what is chosen through the lens
of art, critical thinking and her own experience as a poet. More
meditation than argument, the essay brings to focus compelling
ideas and questions surrounding the significance of art for the
contemporary world.
A collection of poems by the award-winning poet.
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