Imperfect fit : aesthetic function, facture, and perception in art and writing since 1950 / Allen Fisher ; foreword by Pierre Joris.

Author
Fisher, Allen, 1944- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]
Description
li, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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    Writer of foreword
    Series
    Modern and contemporary poetics [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 is an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of connectedness in contemporary art and poetry. Allen Fisher--a highly accomplished poet, painter, critic, and art historian as well as a key figure in the British poetry revival of the 1960s and 1970s--has a close and discerning connection to his subjects. In Imperfect Fit, Fisher focuses on the role of fracturing, ruptures, and breakages in many traditional ties between art and poetry, as well as the resulting use of collage and assemblage by practitioners of those arts. Fisher addresses, among other subjects, destruction as a signifier in twentieth-century art; the poetic employment of bureaucratic vocabularies and "business speak"; and the roles of public performance and memory loss in the fashioning of human knowledge and art. Commonplace notions of coherence, logic, and truth are reimagined and deconstructed in this study, and Fisher concludes by suggesting that contemporary culture offers a particularly robust opportunity--and even necessity--to engage in the production of art as a pragmatic act." --From publisher's description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-227) and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Confidence in Lack: Logic, Coherence, and Damage
    • 2. Testing and Experimenting: A Personal View of Aesthetic Practice and Reception
    • 3. Necessary Business: Aesthetics and Patterns of Connectedness: Reading Works by cris cheek, Eric Mottram, and J. H. Prynne
    • 4. Integration and Disintegration in the Work of R. B. Kitaj
    • 5. Poetry and Performance: Facture and Reader Participation in Performance: Aspects of Charles Olson's Poetic Practice
    • 6. Breaks Margin: Postmodernism as Package and Resistance against It in the Work of Harry Thubron and Ulli Freer
    • 7. The Crowd: Momentum, Energy, and the Work of Cy Twombly
    • 8. Monuments to the Future: Social Resonance through the Work of Joseph Beuys
    • 9. Engaged Damage in the Work of William S. Burroughs
    • 10. Traps or Tools and Damage: Inventive Perception and Transformation.
    ISBN
    • 9780817358723 (paperback)
    • 0817358722 (paperback)
    LCCN
    2016016292
    OCLC
    953363617
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