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Notes On Conceptualisms (2009)

by Vanessa Place(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Ugly Duckling

review 1: Reading this alongside Adrienne Rich, _Poetry & Commitment_. An entirely different "take" on the problem of the political and the aesthetic.*Just don't know how to take this manifesto (if that's what it is). . . If it's serious, which I think it is, then I have real reservations . . . which can be summed up with the bizarre proposition of the "sobject" of conceptual poetics . . . On the other hand, if this is just meant to be funny, a good laugh, then I did at times giggle. If it's both--some kind of Joycean joco-seriousness--then I find that a bit too easy. Again, just don't know how to take it.
review 2: In moving through various issues of conceptual art and their correlations to the written word this book enables authors to navigate through their work with s... moreo many specific and distanced points of light. In a way one could make each of these notes a prompt for a daily exercise or spend a lifetime focused on a single sentence. Either way it should be in every writers library or repertoire if they consider themselves contemporary; to be unfamiliar with this text is now archaic. Indeed one of the main conceits is that unfamiliarity no longer exists at all. less

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