Richard Kostelanetz: Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (1993–)
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“This book elucidates, celebrates, enumerates, and sometimes obliterates achievers and achievements in the avant-garde arts. Although it runs from A to Z, it could as easily have been written from Z to A (or in any other order you might imagine) and may be read from front to back, back to front, or point to point. It is opinionated, as all good dictionaries should be, but it is also inclusive, because there can never be just one avant-garde.
Blake • Rimbaud • Apollinaire • Stein • Cage • Lichtenstein • Tatlin • Keaton • Captain Beefheart • Hologram • Text-Sound Texts • Strobe Light • Grotowski • Soho • Micropress • Electronic Music • Reinhardt • Pound • Performance • Postmodern • Duchamp • Fuller • Oldenberg • Paik • Armory Show • Reich • Cunningham • Copy Culture • Pattern Poetry • Bread and Puppet Theatre” (from the back cover)
With contributions by Richard Carlin, Geof Huth, Gerald Janecek, Katy Matheson, H.R. Brittain, John Robert Colombo, Ulrike Michal Dorda, Charles Doria, and Robert Haller.
Publisher A Capella Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press, 1993
ISBN 1556522029
246 pages
PDF
2nd edition (2000, 47 MB, added on 2020-3-18)
New additions (2011) selected for Soanyway by Derek Horton (HTML)
“I Knew It To Be So!” Forrest Bess, Alfred Jensen, Myron Stout: Theory and the Visionary (1984)
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · abstract expressionism, art, painting
Black-and-white catalogue for an exhibition curated by Lawrence Luhring and David Reed for the New York Studio School and Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA. With essays by John Yau, Luhring, Reed and Thomas Hudspeth.
25 pages
via David Reed (Special Projects)
John Yau on Forrest Bess, Part 2 (Hyperalergic, 2012)
Commentary on Bess’s hermaphrodism (Heidi Gustafson, 2014)
Gyorgy Kepes: Language of Vision: Painting, Photography, Advertising-Design (1944–) [EN, ES, DE]
Filed under book | Tags: · advertising, art, art theory, bauhaus, colour, design, light, painting, perception, photography, vision
Noted painter, designer, theoretician Gyorgy Kepes analyzes the effect of visual language on the structure of human consciousness, in particular how the elements of line and form are perceived and how innovative types of perspective can lead to more dynamic representations in art. Over 300 photographs, drawings and illustrations.
With introductory essays by Siegfried Giedion and Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
First published in 1944
Publisher Paul Theobald, Chicago, 1969
228 pages
Commentary: Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller (1999), Leigh Anne Roach (Ph.D. dissertation, 2010).
Language of Vision (English, 1944/1969, 33 MB, no OCR)
El Lenguaje de la visión (Spanish, trans. Enrique L. Revol, 1969, added on 2017-6-21 via Valericke)
Sprache des Sehens (German, trans. Renate Pfriem and Almut v. Wulffen, 1971, 20 MB, added on 2019-12-3 via ARCH)