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Richard Kostelanetz
Kostelanetz was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the conductor Andre Kostelanetz. He has a B.A. (1962) from Brown University and an M.A. (1966)…
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Gertrude Stein
The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress is a modernist novel by Gertrude Stein. The novel traces the genealogy, history, and psychological development of members of…
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Richard Kostelanetz,Richard Carlin
For a concise edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz selects entries from the 2018 third edition. Typically he…
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Ethel W Mumford
Having long accepted the common opinion that only two American
women aphorists were worth reprinting (Mae West and Dorothy Parker),
I was surprised to discover the aphorisms of Minna Antrim…
John D Passos, Frans Masereel
In 1925 there appeared two classic representational fictions about urban life, one in America and the other in Western John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer and Frans Masereel's Die Stadt/The City…
Carl V Vechten
Because some authors couldn't imagine what might be unacceptable
a century later, certain classics need to be rewritten for current
consumption. This I have done, initially with a retitling that…
Henry L Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English.[1] He commented widely on the social scene…
Virgil Thomson is recognized as one of the dominant music critics whose unique sensibility was informed by his ground-breaking work as a composer of the mid-20th century. Whether writing for…
John Cage is perhaps the 21st century’s most radical classical composer. Through his life and work, he created revolutions in thinking about art, and its relationship to the world around…
Fucks explores many different meanings that the once-disparaged, now richly resonant word can assume in English sentences.
Includes fourteen selections from respected authorities on literature, dance, the visual arts, theatre, music, cinema, and architecture. This book captures the diversity of our changing views of art while at…
Now for its third edition, more than a quarter-century later, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz returns to his favorite subject: the avant-garde in all the arts. Rewriting…
The novels treated here retain a kind of eye-witness account from the front immediacy that, combined with Kostelanetz’s enduring insights, will make Politics in the African-American Novel an important addition…
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Poetry. The critical measure for visual poetry is, simply, the visual enhancement of language. With his latest book ROUNDELAYS, Richard Kostelanetz takes single English words and then animates them on…
Richard Kostelanetz,Richard Kostelanetz
This anthology collects 51 of Stein’s most experimental poems, stories, portraits, and plays.
The prolific American anarchist critic Richard Kostelanetz collects his writings on film and video. He writes with clarity and uncommon perception not only about familiar issues but also about films…
Cultural Writing. Political Studies. Essays. TOWARD SECESSION: 156 MORE POLITICAL ESSAYS FROM A FAIRLY ORTHODOX ANARCHIST-LIBERTARIAN is a new collection of critical essays from veteran artist, author, and critic Richard…
Richard Kostelanetz has been writing literary essays for nearly fifty years. His earlier collections have been devoted to essays on poetry, fiction, visual art, music, culture, performance and politics. Composed…
Poetry. As Richard Kostelanetz says in his preface, When I first heard the epithet afterimage as an honorific among visual artists, I recognized it as analogous to the strongest lines…
Preface
From the beginning of my work in visual poetry fifty years ago, I wanted to create from words alone images so strong that they would stick in viewers’ heads…
As Richard Kostelanetz says in his preface, "When I first heard the epithet afterimage as an honorific among visual artists, I recognized it as analogous to the strongest lines in…
From his silent piece (4'33 ) to his proclamation that all sound is music, John Cage stretched the aesthetic boundaries of what could be performed in the modern concert hall…
Copland is one of America’s best-known composers and writers on 20th century music. This volume brings together the best of his published essays on music with previously unpublished material from…
For more than twenty years, Richard Kostelanetz has been a consistent iconoclast and advocate of the avant-garde in American poetry.
Poetry. Long concerned with poetic invention, the indisputably avant-garde writer Richard Kostelanetz has recently been discovering new language forms not with words but within words. This new collection of his…
Poetry. Having already established his poetry among the most inventive ever, the distinguished man of avant-garde letters Richard Kostelanetz realizes further radically formal steps in THREE POEMS. Each is a…
THE B.B. KING READER SIX DECADES OF COMMENTARY
The author of many books about arts and artists in America, Richard Kostelanetz in his Artists’ SoHo describes, as an historian-participant, the development of a legendary artists’ colony within an…
Kostelanetz slashes and burns his way through the politics of American culture. Caution: demolition master at work!
Politics.Cultural Writing. Both anarchist and libertarian, Kostelanetz combines the creed the best things in life are free characteristic of the former with the approval of enterprise (enterprise, not capitalism) and…
Literary Nonfiction. Cultural Studies. A heavyweight confronting sanctified elephants, the impossibly prolific anarchist and libertarian cultural critic targets, with dead-on accuracy and quotable wit, Andy Warhol, Harold Bloom, The New…
As a rich successor to his Crimes of Culture (Autonomedia, 1996), Political Essays (Autonomedia, 2006), Toward Secession (Autonomedia, 2008), Skeptical Essays (Autonomedia, 2010), and A Person of Letters (Autonomedia, 2014)…
This interdisciplinary guide covers the most influential avant garde art movements of the past 150 years, ranging from futurism to free-jazz. It has been updated and revised to include greater…
Carlin,Richard Carlin
(Music Sales America). One of the most delightful collections of lullabies and cradle songs ever gathered together in one book. Included in this illustrated collection are The Man in the…
Richard Carlin
An eight-volume set, celebrating American music by presenting information on seven major musical branches. Together, the volumes comprise a panoramic depiction of American music and the influential threads that weave…
An eclectic, comprehensive look at the diverse artists, genres, and musical instruments that have shaped the country sound. This illustrated A-Z guide covers more than 700 country music artists, groups…
Since its transformation in 1934 from a whites only burlesque theater to a showplace of African American music, dance, and comedy, the Apollo Theater has exerted an unprecedented influence upon…
Tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in the history of popular music, Morris Levy. At nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, which became…
Tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990). At age nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen…
Richard L. Carlin
This is a book about things in magnetism that interest me. Several years ago, Hans van Duyneveldt and I published a book that explored these subjects in detail. Since that…
