Francesco
Conz and the Intermedia Avant-Garde
by Wayne Barewaldt, Francesco Conz, Wayne Baerwaldt, Burt Warren, Nicholas
Zurbrugg, Kirker
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Francesco Conz and the Intermedia Avant-Garde provides an opportunity
to experience a broad range of creative projects that resist simple categorization
but which can be loosely corralled under the notion of Fluxus and visual
poetics. They are the results of collaboration between artists and an uncommonly
generous collector and publisher of art editions who seized the spirit
of intermedia in the 1970s and who has championed it into the 1990s. Essays
by Wayne Baerwaldt, Warren Burt, and Nicholas Zurbrugg, an interview with
Francesco Conz by Henry Martin, and an introduction by Anne Kirker.
Jean
Baudrillard: Art and Artefact
by Jean Baudrillard (Editor), Nicholas Zurbrugg (Editor), Institute
of modern
The Parameters of Postmodernism by Nicholas Zurbrugg
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The author challenges prevalent negative theories about postmodern
culture and refocuses debate on the facts of current creativity, dealing
with specific works and providing an empirical analysis. He draws on interviews
with such postmodern artists, writers, and performers as Laurie Anderson,
Jean Baudrillard, Samuel Beckett, and John Cage, among others.
The Multimedia Text (Art & Design Profile, 45)by Nicholas Zurbrugg (Editor), Nicola Kearton (Editor)
Critical
Vices: The Myths of Postmodern Theory (Critical Voices in Art,
Theory, and Culture)
by Nicholas Zurbrugg, Warren Burt (Commentary), Saul Ostrow
Book Description
This book of Nicholas Zurbrugg's challenging and provocative essays
charts the most exciting developments in late 20th-century multimedia art.
Zurbrugg challenges Jean Baudrillard's, Fredric Jameson's, and Achille
Bonito-Oliva's unfavorable accounts of postmodern techno-culture. Interweaving
literary and cultural theory, and visual studies, Zurbrugg demonstrates
how multimedia visionaries such as Bill Viola and Robert Wilson are notable
exceptions to the neutering of mass-media culture, bringing together the
modernist and postmodern avant-garde.
The
ABC's of Robert Lax
by Robert Lax, David Miller (Editor), Nicholas Zurbrugg (Editor)
Book Description
Poetry/Essays/Interviews/Letters. "He's good, isn't he!", commented
Samuel Beckett, and little else need be said of Robert Lax. The ABCs of
Robert Lax assembles a truly panoramic array of essays on Lax's writings;
with extensive interviews, examples of his correspondence and key texts
from his previously unpublished poems, prose and autobiographical reflections,
this book provides both text and context. Written in relative isolation
on the islands of Kalymnos and Patmos, Lax's poetry has been consistently
championed by such writers as Thomas Merton, Mark Van Voren, Susan Howe
and Denise Levertov, and by artists, musicians and filmmakers. "all things
bade him, all things invited him to join" (from "Tractatus VI"); The ABCs
of Robert Lax bids us, invites us into the vivid experimental world of
a poet who is, in Jack Kerouac's words, "a Pilgrim in search of beautiful
Innocence, writing lovingly, finding it, simply, in his own way."
"a Pilgrim in search of beautiful Innocence, writing lovingly, finding
it, simply, in his own way." -Jack Kerouac "He's good, isn't he!" --Samuel
Beckett "Why do I read Robert Lax? For the sheer joy of it. I don't know
another poet quite like him. All that profound simplicity, echoes of classicism
in a new form." -Emmett Williams" The ABCs of Robert Lax assembles a truly
panoramic array of essays on Lax's writings; with extensive interviews,
examples of his correspondence and key texts from his previously unpublished
poems, prose and autobiographical reflections. Written in relative isolation
on the islands of Kalymnos and Patmos, Lax's poetry has been consistently
championed by such writers as Thomas Merton, Mark Van Voren and Denise
Levertov.
Beckett and Proust by Nicholas Zurbrugg
Book Description
Not only does this book contain major analyses of Beckett's essay "Proust,
and of his first unpublished novel," "Dream of Fair to Middling Women,
but also discussions of his latest prose works," "Company, Ill Seen, Ill
Said and" "Westward Ho." Contents: Proust and Critical Perspectives; Positive
Modes of Existence inàR "A la recherche du temps perdu; Negative
Modes of Existence in" "A la recherche du temps perdu; Nihilistic Modes
of Existence in" "A la recherche du temps perdu; Beckett's Prousts-The
Singular and the Multipe; Beckett's Interpretation of the 'Albertine Tragedy';
Beckett and the 'Paradox' of the 'Mystical Experience'; Beckett and Critical
Perspectives; Beckett, Proust, and" "Dream of Fair to Middling Women; The
Evolution of Beckett's Early Fictional Vision in" "More Pricks Than Kicks
and Murphy; Watt and the Problem of Intelligibility; Beckett's Mature Fiction-From
'Shit' to 'Shades'; Conclusion:" "'not life/necessarily'"-Beckett's 'Shades';
Notes; Selected Bibliography; IndexàR
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