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Allen S. Weiss
Essays on the nature, creation, and presentation of art, craft, and architecture in Japan, springing from the author's experiences in Kyoto.
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Explores how early radio and sound recording influenced modernist literature.
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This book investigates the reciprocal and often transgressive relations between rhetorical figures and libidinal activity. The works of Nietzsche, Artaud, Bataille, Klossowski, and Sade are reconsidered in light of the…
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Art Brut, also termed Outsider Art, has long been suppressed from most art historical writing. Why this rejection? The hyperbolic expressions of Romanticism and Symbolism nourished a desire for derangement…
Nine previous published essays analyze the limits of applying psychoanalytic theory to aesthetic discourse, thereby expanding the range of non-normative paradigms of spectatorial identification and sexual identity. The texts have…
Treats French cuisine as a fine art, offering both historical background as well as a deep analysis of the social, political, and aesthetic aspects of cuisine and taste.
Explores the role of a significant, yet, elusive feature of the French landscape in literature, philosophy, and art.
Explores the role of a significant yet elusive feature of the French landscape in literature, philosophy, and art.
People collect to connect with the past, personal and historic, to exercise some small and perfect degree of control over a carefully chosen portion of the world. The Grain of…
This book, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, explores the myriad aesthetic, cultural, and experimental possibilities of radiophony and sound art.
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The alienation of the self, the annihilation of the body, the fracturing, dispersal, and reconstruction of the disembodied voice: the themes of modernism, even of modern consciousness, occur as a…
Claudia Schmuckli,Allen S. Weiss
Leonardo Drew’s formally abstract and emotionally charged compositions are made to resemble the detritus of everyday life, have combined qualities of painting and sculpture. His work has an aesthetic authority…
Lawrence R. Schehr,Allen S. Weiss
This work offers a smorgasbord of topics on cuisine in modern France, from the invention of French cuisine in the early 1800s to the McDonaldization of that national emblem, the…
French Food offers a smorgasbord of topics on cuisine in modern France, from the invention of French cuisine in the early 1800s to the McDonaldization of that national emblem, the…
This major collection of essays on the Marquis de Sade, first published in 1995, encompasses a wide range of critical approaches to his oeuvre, including some of the most celebrated…
This collection of essays on the Marquis de Sade encompasses a wide range of critical approaches to his oeuvre, including some of the most celebrated texts in Sade scholarship, now…
This book examines Freud’s most famous case study with newly discovered material written by Schreber and photos of significant persons in Schreber’s life.
Comic books and mangas are the source material for Marclay’s most recent works, whose listening experience yet again opens up new dimensions. The extensive monograph not only does justice to…
