Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing Since 1950 - Couverture souple

Fisher, Allen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0817358722 ISBN 13 : 9780817358723

Editeur : The University of Alabama Press, 2016

Synopsis

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. Scholars of art, poetry, and aesthetics will be engaged and challenged by this insightful work.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher, art historian, and performer associated with the British Poetry Revival. He is an emeritus professor of poetry and art at Manchester Metropolitan University and the author of several publications, including Sputtor, Gravity as a consequence of shape, and the seminal work Place.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Alabama Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0817358722
• ISBN 13: 9780817358723
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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• Personne responsable: non disponible