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NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: THE USES OF PHOTOGRAPHY : ART, POLITICS, AND THE REINVENTION OF A MEDIUM (2016) • The Uses of Photography examines a network of California artists whose experiments with photography during the turbulent, transitional decade of the 1970s opened the medium to a profusion of new strategies and subjects. Working within the framework of Conceptual art, these artists introduced urgent social issues and themes of everyday life into the seemingly neutral territory of photography, producing works that took on hybrid forms, from books and postcards to video and text-and-image installations. • Tracing a crucial history of photoconceptual practice, The Uses of Photography focuses on an artistic community that formed in and around the young UC San Diego, founded in 1960, and its visual arts department, founded in 1968. Artists such as Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow, Martha Rosler, and Allan Sekula employed photography and its expanded forms as a means to dismantle modernist autonomy, to contest notions of photographic truth, and to engage in political critique. The work of these artists shaped emergent accounts of postmodernism in the visual arts and their influence is felt throughout the global contemporary art world today. Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. • Edited by Jill Dawsey Texts by Judith Rodenbeck, Benjamin Young , David Antin, and Pamela M. Lee Artists include David Antin, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Helen Mayer Harrison, Newton Harrison, Louis Hock, Allan Kaprow, Fred Lonidier, Babette Mangolte, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Lorna Simpson, Elizabeth Sisco, Phel Steinmetz, Carrie Mae Weems. • Available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #theusesofphotography #davidantin #eleonorantin #babettemangolte #martharosler #fredlonidier #johnbaldessari #gaag #allankaprow #helenmayerharrison #newtonharrison #lornasimpson #allansekula #carriemaeweems #louishock #jeanpierregorin #phelsteinmetz #elizabethsisco (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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from “Tuning” by David Antin
i dont think im unique in feeling the absence of urgency in constructing a literary object its in fact i think a fairly recent aberration the existence of literature conceived in a tight framework there is some sense of urgency out there a passing police car they have an audience they have an audience and a need and they may respond to it badly but they have their sense of urgency the most exotic example i can think of and the most striking example i can think of which i have thought about recently and which is not something i want to spend a great deal of time thinking about here is a kind of post napoleonic commitment to producing an amazingly important object balzac say i dont really want to talk about balzac except that hes an example of incredible arrogance and ambition with nothing to say a man goes into a closet in order to say it a half baked kid decides to be a great writer to be like napoleon to take over the empire of letters what would he do? whatever was going to be great what would be great? classical tragedies that was what was great in paris what else would be great in paris? racine what else? he would write plays now its very difficult you go with nothing in your mind in particular except your own future greatness you go there to paris to write great plays because thats where they write them you go there mainly to exercise your dominion balzac is a good example he couldnt speak he had nothing to say coffee black coffee was the answer self intoxication late at night what came out presumably ive never seen an autograph manuscript of balzac and i dont know anybody who has but ive seen early proof sheets he obviously managed to achieve finally utterance a string of clichés an incredible propulsion of garbage an incredible group of commonplaces flowing one after another but they flow after endless cups of coffee which presumably finally killed him second proof sheet third proof sheet i never saw a second or third proof sheet presumably i saw eleventh proof sheets or something of that order theyre filled with literary high class the flow of clichés the flow of platitudinous trash is interrupted primarily by self conscious reflexive high class prose that enters into the flow one thing was flowing and it was nonsense but it was at least flowing after that there were second thoughts and third thoughts and fourth thoughts balzac criticizing balzac getting smarter learning little bits and pieces of junk embedding a mosaic of early 19th century cleverness going swedenborgianism going sociology going real worldism going whatever to take away the embarrassment of this fluent trash which flowed all the way through unrealized and absurd clichéd scenes followed largely by modifications that add respectability and slow down the pace of the prose till finally in what? the 22nd proof sheet we have the brokenbacked mosaic of a balzac novel a monster what we have is a fluency of utterance and energy broken and restrained in a disastrous mosaic which is an image of what an image of class an image of mentalism an image of whatever it was the now nearly worthless currency of 19th century hip that had value then for that reason that it was their currency and there are strata in balzac and all the strata appear together pressed in various sized fragments onto the surface of the text a balzac novel is an archeological trove its not so much a work as it is a series of self conscious reflections on his inability to let his talk fall where it fell because he wanted to be great its very bad to want to be great because theres no reason in the world why you should be great until the world decides that you are great which is all that greatness consists of now i didnt start from a critique of balzac and im not interested in laying balzac open to this critique that could apply almost as well to so many other writers but balzac is an enormously interesting case for the reason that he is so typical of the arrogance of literature as a construction that will eventually claim to equal the career of a progressively accumulated intelligence that the world had just come to call science and this new career would be something like a science a quasi science of the real world what "real world" the world of common sense made to seem as if it was more than common sense? or less than common sense? the world of if A then B the truth table its the plausible world of the marriage novel the plausible world of the money accumulating novel the plausible world of the success story its all plausible but its plausible but its plausible only afterwards because before that what is it its an opera or a fairy tale because balzac writes basically a romance or an opera which he then subjects to a somewhat cynical critique a 19th century critique of this romance and the critique is called realism now theres a kind of comedy to this because the critique is a kind of afterword its as though balzac expects to be judged why does he expect to be judged its an interesting question he expects to be judged because hes going to have an object in front of the world and the world will have the leisure and the desire to examine it once and then examine it again and then examine it again and then again and its as if he was back in school and he was preparing to face a board of examiners and he was turning in his examination booklet that this board of examiners was going to scrutinize over and over slowly turning its pages to see if they pass now theres one issue in a book its that a book is always reinspectable when you recall a passage it is always the same which is unlike talk which you can also recall but is never the same and is never reinspectable except in your memory that is you may believe that its the same but you have no certainty that its the same and the talk goes out into the world and its gone and its not worth any more than anyones confidence in you or confidence in their ability to perform the interpretive act upon the discourse with you because the discourse is the one thing that youre sure of theres a situation and you respond to it
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volume 21 | lokakuu 2016 Found poetry in memory of David Antin (1932–2016) Edition: 40
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Very good out-of-print copy on #NewDirections of #DavidAntin's #TalkingAtTheBoundaries, $10.
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NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: THE USES OF PHOTOGRAPHY : ART, POLITICS, AND THE REINVENTION OF A MEDIUM (2016) • The Uses of Photography examines a network of California artists whose experiments with photography during the turbulent, transitional decade of the 1970s opened the medium to a profusion of new strategies and subjects. Working within the framework of Conceptual art, these artists introduced urgent social issues and themes of everyday life into the seemingly neutral territory of photography, producing works that took on hybrid forms, from books and postcards to video and text-and-image installations. • Tracing a crucial history of photoconceptual practice, The Uses of Photography focuses on an artistic community that formed in and around the young UC San Diego, founded in 1960, and its visual arts department, founded in 1968. Artists such as Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow, Martha Rosler, and Allan Sekula employed photography and its expanded forms as a means to dismantle modernist autonomy, to contest notions of photographic truth, and to engage in political critique. The work of these artists shaped emergent accounts of postmodernism in the visual arts and their influence is felt throughout the global contemporary art world today. Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. • Edited by Jill Dawsey Texts by Judith Rodenbeck, Benjamin Young , David Antin, and Pamela M. Lee Artists include David Antin, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Helen Mayer Harrison, Newton Harrison, Louis Hock, Allan Kaprow, Fred Lonidier, Babette Mangolte, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Lorna Simpson, Elizabeth Sisco, Phel Steinmetz, Carrie Mae Weems. • Available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #theusesofphotography #davidantin #eleonorantin #babettemangolte #martharosler #fredlonidier #johnbaldessari #gaag #allankaprow #helenmayerharrison #newtonharrison #lornasimpson #allansekula #carriemaeweems #louishock #jeanpierregorin #phelsteinmetz #elizabethsisco (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: THE USES OF PHOTOGRAPHY : ART, POLITICS, AND THE REINVENTION OF A MEDIUM (2016) • The Uses of Photography examines a network of California artists whose experiments with photography during the turbulent, transitional decade of the 1970s opened the medium to a profusion of new strategies and subjects. Working within the framework of Conceptual art, these artists introduced urgent social issues and themes of everyday life into the seemingly neutral territory of photography, producing works that took on hybrid forms, from books and postcards to video and text-and-image installations. • Tracing a crucial history of photoconceptual practice, The Uses of Photography focuses on an artistic community that formed in and around the young UC San Diego, founded in 1960, and its visual arts department, founded in 1968. Artists such as Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow, Martha Rosler, and Allan Sekula employed photography and its expanded forms as a means to dismantle modernist autonomy, to contest notions of photographic truth, and to engage in political critique. The work of these artists shaped emergent accounts of postmodernism in the visual arts and their influence is felt throughout the global contemporary art world today. Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. • Edited by Jill Dawsey Texts by Judith Rodenbeck, Benjamin Young , David Antin, and Pamela M. Lee Artists include David Antin, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Helen Mayer Harrison, Newton Harrison, Louis Hock, Allan Kaprow, Fred Lonidier, Babette Mangolte, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Lorna Simpson, Elizabeth Sisco, Phel Steinmetz, Carrie Mae Weems. • Available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #theusesofphotography #davidantin #eleonorantin #babettemangolte #martharosler #fredlonidier #johnbaldessari #gaag #allankaprow #helenmayerharrison #newtonharrison #lornasimpson #allansekula #carriemaeweems #louishock #jeanpierregorin #phelsteinmetz #elizabethsisco (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)
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