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Argento Series
Kevin Killian; Foreword by Derek McCormack
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R343
Discovery Miles 3 430
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Pattern Book (Hardcover)
Christopher Russell; Notes by Holly Myers, Kevin Killian
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R1,352
R1,079
Discovery Miles 10 790
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"Russell weaves his writing into pictures... He chops his text into
geometric shapes, casts it in rainbow colors and visually
assaultive fonts, and scratches it onto photographs. In the work
contained here, in Pattern Book, he laces text into art nouveau
wallpaper, dissolving his stories into a swooning screen of
domestic pattern. At every turn, it seems, Russell throws some
wrench into the cogs of literary consumption, slowing the reader
down, jostling expectations, demanding attention-challenging the
reader, in other words, to really want to be reading."-Holly Myers
Pattern Book by Christopher Russell collects a number of images and
texts, images woven through texts, and texts woven together through
images. Kevin Killian, author of Impossible Princess (City Lights
2009), says, "I was born wanting a Christopher Russell to join me
in this confusing world.... I wanted a boy with confused gaze,
mortified as I am by the harsh and ugly crumples of life, but one
who, with bold decisive strokes, could hack a pathway out if it.
... Russell's method, in which he dethrones language's hegemony
over rival visual formations by distorting and exaggerating its
recognizable, even homey, patterns borrows roots from many
traditions. Medieval monks are said to have curried favor with
abbots by carving Bible verses into the head of a pin. ... When
language, or the image, is enervated, the work of art has room for
other connotations to manifest. ... And in these beautiful pages we
will see, and we will not see, things it will take us a hundred
years to understand."
In the twenty years that followed America's bicentennial, narrative
writing was re-formed, reflecting new political and sexual
realities. With the publication of this anthology, the New
Narrative era bounds back to life, ripe with dramatic propulsion
and infused with the twin strains of poetry and Continental theory.
Arranged chronologically, the reader will discover classic texts of
New Narrative from Bob Gluck to Kathy Acker, and rare materials
including period interviews, reviews, essays, and talks combined to
form a new map of late twentieth-century creative rebellion.
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Picture Cycle (Paperback)
Masha Tupitsyn, Kevin Killian
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R513
R419
Discovery Miles 4 190
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A multigenre investigation of the personal and cultural annals of
memory, identity, and spectatorship, both on and off the screen. In
exchange for studying what each fraudulent cell looks like under a
merciless commercial and commodified lens, viewers enable
late-capitalism to run more smoothly by calling in with their
votes, as is the case with Reality TV. From the inside, secrecy
appears eradicated, as though secrets or coded transparencies
comprise the totality of injustice, rather than just one part.
Justice is reduced to a vantage point. We see and we see and we see
ad infinitum. -from Picture Cycle With her debut collection Beauty
Talk & Monsters (2007), Masha Tupitsyn established a new genre
of hybrid writing that melded film criticism, philosophy, and
autobiography. Picture Cycle continues Tupitsyn's multigenre
investigation of the personal and cultural annals of memory,
identity, and spectatorship, both on and off the screen. Composed
over a ten-year period, Picture Cycle is a pioneering collection
whose sharp and knowing vignette-like essays form a critical
autobiography of the daily images in our lives. Deftly covering a
range of theoretical and cinematic frameworks, Tupitsyn traces here
the quickly vanishing line between onscreen and offscreen,
predigital and postdigital. The result is a unique intellectual
study of the uncanny formation of our life's biographies through
images.
In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he
left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies
of the seven small books he had seen to press. A West Coast poet,
his influence spanned the national literary scene of the 1950s and
'60s, though in many ways Spicer's innovative writing ran counter
to that of his contemporaries in the New York School and the West
Coast Beat movement. Now, more than forty years later, Spicer's
voice is more compelling, insistent, and timely than ever. During
his short but prolific life, Spicer troubled the concepts of
translation, voice, and the act of poetic composition itself. My
Vocabulary Did This to Me is a landmark publication of this
essential poet's life work, and includes poems that have become
increasingly hard to find and many published here for the first
time.
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Lily's Helping Hand (Paperback)
First Team 1676 The Pascack Pi-Oneers; Directed by Kevin Killian; Samantha Livingstone
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R239
Discovery Miles 2 390
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Ray Johnson (1927-1995) blurred the boundaries of life and art, of
authorship and intimacy. Correspondence is the defining character
of all of Johnson's work, particularly his mail art. Intended to be
read, to be received, to be corresponded with, his letters (usually
both image and textual in character) were folded and delivered to
an individual reader, to be opened and read, again and again.
Johnson's correspondence includes letter to friends William S.
Wilson, Dick Higgins, Richard Lippold, Toby Spiselman, Joseph
Cornell, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Robert Motherwell, Eleanor Antin,
Germaine Green, Lynda Benglis, Arakawa and Madeline Gins, Christo,
Billy Name, Jim Rosenquist and Albert M. Fine, among many others.
The subjects of his correspondence ranged from the New York
avant-garde (Cage, Johns, de Kooning, Duchamp) to filmmakers such
as John Waters, philosophers such as Jacques Derrida and writers
such as Gertrude Stein and Marianne Moore. This collection of more
than 200 selected letters and writings--most of which are
previously unpublished--opens a new view into the sprawling,
multiplicitous nature of Johnson's art, revealing not only how he
created relationships, glyphs and puzzles in connecting words,
phrases, people and ideas, but also something about the elusive
Johnson himself. In a 1995 article in "The New York Times," Roberta
Smith wrote: "Make room for Ray Johnson, whose place in history has
been only vaguely defined. Johnson's beguiling, challenging art has
an exquisite clarity and emotional intensity that makes it much
more than simply a remarkable mirror of its time, although it is
that, too."
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