What it means to be avant-garde / David Antin.
1993
PS3551.N75 W5 1993
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Title
What it means to be avant-garde / David Antin.
Author
ISBN
0811212386 (acid-free paper) :
9780811212380 (acid-free paper)
9780811212380 (acid-free paper)
Imprint
New York : New Directions, 1993.
Language
English
Description
207 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
PS3551.N75 W5 1993
System Control No.
(OCoLC)27339367
Summary
what it means to be avant-garde is David Antin's third collection of "talk poems" published by New Directions. As in his earlier talking at the boundaries (1976), and tuning (winner of the 1984 PEN/Los Angeles Literary Award for Poetry), Antin's brilliant improvised disquisitions at once challenge readers' expectations even as they instruct and entertain. A poet, performance artist, art critic, and professor of visual arts, Antin, since his college days in New York in the '50s, has been at the cutting edge of the avant-garde. The avant-garde? Yes, if by this is meant not an image of fashion but the place where art and life intersect, imparting to both a greater urgency - if is meant the place where experience and knowledge find their deepest expression, where the idea of a universal language can find shape, where the price of art is itself, where the fringe is the very center of existence.
Formatted Contents Note
the fringe
spring love noise and all
what it means to be avant-garde
durations
the price
the river
the structuralist.
spring love noise and all
what it means to be avant-garde
durations
the price
the river
the structuralist.
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 760
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