Gus Blaisdell collected / selected and edited by William Peterson ; coedited by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey.

Author
Blaisdell, Gus [Browse]
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2012.
Description
xxxiii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    This long-awaited collection of Blaisdell's critical writings includes essays on literature, art, and film, along with moving tributes by some of the distinguished writers who numbered Blaisdell among their friends.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-382).
    Contents
    • Foreword / Stanley Cavell
    • Editor's preface / William Peterson
    • Introduction: On "slipping across": reading, friendship, otherness / David B. Morris
    • Gus Blaisdell on photographs. Absorbing inventories: Thomas Barrow's Libraries series ; Afterworld: the photographs of Joel-Peter Witkin ; Bldgs: photographs by Lewis Baltz ; Space begins because we look away from where we are: Lewis Baltz's Candlestick point ; Buried silk exhumed: the Lewis Baltz retrospective, rule without exception ; From "Obscenity in thy mother's milk": John Gossage's Hey fuckface! portfolio ; Thirteen ways of NOT looking at a Gossage photograph
    • On movies. Passion misfits us all: Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas ; Mr. Death's Blue-eyed boy: Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal jacket ; Still moving ; Highlighting Hitchcock's Vertigo with magic marker
    • On painting. Frank Stella's The whiteness of the whale ; Passion's pine breeze: the paintings of Terry Conway ; On In: outside: Guy Williams, selected works 1976-1982 ; Original face: Allan Graham's moon 2 ; Poem: "Omoide no tsukimi"
    • On reading and writing. Gloss annexed ; Vatic writing: Evan S. Connell's Notes from a bottle ... ; Tell it like it is: the experimental traditionalists ; Rebus ; What was called "A Thought echoed in sight": Yvor Winters' Centenary ; Poem: "Occasional loquats" ; For Robert Creeley on his 70th birthday ; A nobler seduction: on Plato's Phaedrus at The Greenwood Press ; Slipping across
    • Fiction. Introduction: Radical philosophical reclamation & wrecking, project: TLP Hotel ; Radical philosophical reclamation & wrecking, part 1 ; Radical philosophical reclamation & wrecking, part 2 ; Radical philosophical reclamation & wrecking, part 3 ; Radical philosophical reclamation & wrecking, part 4
    • Shorts and excerpts from correspondence. Self, embodied: correspondence with Nicholas Brownrigg ; On objecthood and art: letter to Marcy Goodwin ; On art criticism and Gus's writing method: letter to Geoffrey Young ; On writing and its discontents: letters to Geoffrey Young ; A vigorous lucidity: an autobiographical note on book editing and design ; Autobiographical note: letter to Lee F. Gerlach ; Working through it: letters to Ross Feld ; A postscript to "working through it": letter from Ross Feld
    • Envoi / Ira Jaffe
    • A chronology / excavated by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey.
    ISBN
    • 9780826342409 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 082634240X ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780826342423 ((electronic))
    • 0826342426 ((electronic))
    LCCN
    2012017510
    OCLC
    793497181
    Other standard number
    • 40021424549
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