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Finding Nothing: Being a Treatise on Absence, Neglect, How the Avant-Garde Learned to See Vancouver (or Found Reason to Try), Writing on the ... 1959-1975, a Type of Collage, Concrete, - Couverture rigide

Betts, Gregory

 
9781487505318: Finding Nothing: Being a Treatise on Absence, Neglect, How the Avant-Garde Learned to See Vancouver (or Found Reason to Try), Writing on the ... 1959-1975, a Type of Collage, Concrete,
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ISBN 10 : 1487505310 ISBN 13 : 9781487505318
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2021

Synopsis

Experimental literature accelerated dramatically in Vancouver in the 1960s as the influence of New American poetics merged with the ideas of Marshall McLuhan. Vancouver poets and artists began thinking about their creative works with new clarity and set about testing and redefining the boundaries of literature. As new gardes in Vancouver explored the limits of text and language, some writers began incorporating collage and concrete poetics into their work while others delved deeper into unsettling, revolutionary, and Surrealist imagery. There was a presumption across the avant-garde communities that radical openness could provoke widespread socio-political change. In other words, the intermedia experimentation and the related destruction of the line between art and society pushed art to the frontlines of a broad socio-political battle of the collective imagination of Vancouver.


Finding Nothing traces the rise of the radical avant-garde in Vancouver, from the initial salvos of the Tish group, through Blewointment's spatial experiments, to radical Surrealisms and new feminisms. Incorporating images, original texts, and interviews, Gregory Betts shows how the VanGardes signalled a remarkable consciousness of the globalized forces at play in the city, impacting communities, orientations, races, and nations.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gregory Betts is a professor in the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1487505310
ISBN 13 
9781487505318
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
392
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