The Collaborative Artist's Book
Evolving Ideas in Contemporary Poetry and Art
- 252 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
The Collaborative Artist's Book offers a rare glimpse into collaborations between poets and painters from 1945 to the present, and highlights how the artist's book became a critical form for experimental American artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Alexandra Gold provides a broad overview of the artist's book form and the many ongoing debates and challenges, from the disciplinary to the institutional, that these forms continue to pose.Gold presents five case studies and details not only how each individual collaboration came to be but how all five together engage and challenge conventional ideals about art, subjectivity, poetry, and interpersonal relations, as well as complex social questions related to gender and race. Taking several of these books out of special collections libraries and museum archives and making them available to a broad readership, Gold brings to light a whole genre that has been largely forgotten or neglected.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Between Subjects: Poetry, Visual Art, and the Collaborative Artistâs Book Form
- Chapter One. âto refuse to be added up or dividedâ: Frank OâHara and Michael Goldbergâs Odes
- Chapter Two. A Form of Accounting: Robert Creeley and Robert Indianaâs Numbers
- Chapter Three. Lyrical Instruments: Anne Waldman and George Schneemanâs Homage to Allen G.
- Chapter Four. Across the Margins: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Kiki Smithâs Concordance
- Chapter Five. âeach raising bodies from the textâ: Erica Hunt and Alison Saarâs Arcade
- Coda. Connective Devices: Collaborative Artistsâ Books in the Twenty-First Century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series List