{"product_id":"imperfect-fit-aesthetic-function-facture-and-perception-in-art-and-writing-since-1950-paperback-softback-9780817358723","title":"Imperfect Fit; Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing Since 1950 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817358723","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImperfect Fit\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing Since 1950\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAllen Fisher (Author), Pierre Joris (Foreword by), Shamoon Zamir (Contributions by), Paige Mitchell (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817358723\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 November 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 16 B\u0026amp;W figures \/ 1 table\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 14.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.465 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThese extraordinary essays by poet and painter Allen Fisher are foundational texts for contemporary UK poetics. For more than thirty years, Fisher has developed highly original, practical aesthetics based on a deep understanding of physics and psychology as well as art history, poetics, and philosophy. His poetry and his art works have consistently explored the ethics and aesthetics of the interrelatedness of science, art, and everyday life. In this essential book, Fisher persuasively gives the arts new scale and relevance in a scientific era.” —Peter Middleton, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Inward Gaze: Masculinity and Subjectivity in Modern Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDistant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Few books about poetics are as hopeful and wide ranging as this one. \u003ci\u003eImperfect Fit\u003c\/i\u003e should put an end once and for all to modernism's nostalgia for order as it describes varieties of a more pertinent practice in poetry and art.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Keith Tuma, editor of \u003ci\u003eAnthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eImperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950\u003c\/i\u003e is an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of connectedness in contemporary art and poetry. Allen Fisher—a highly accomplished poet, painter, critic, and art historian as well as a key figure in the British poetry revival of the 1960s and 1970s—has a close and discerning connection to his subjects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eImperfect Fit, \u003c\/i\u003eFisher focuses on the role of fracturing, ruptures, and breakages in many traditional ties between art and poetry, as well as the resulting use of collage and assemblage by practitioners of those arts. Fisher addresses, among other subjects, destruction as a signifier in twentieth-century art; the poetic employment of bureaucratic vocabularies and “business speak”; and the roles of public performance and memory loss in the fashioning of human knowledge and art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommonplace notions of coherence, logic, and truth are reimagined and deconstructed in this study, and Fisher concludes by suggesting that contemporary culture offers a particularly robust opportunity—and even necessity—to engage in the production of art as a pragmatic act. Scholars of art, poetry, and aesthetics will be engaged and challenged by this insightful work.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574353195288,"sku":"9780817358723","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/imperfect-fit-aesthetic-function-facture-and-perception-in-art-and-writing-since-1950-paperback-softback-9780817358723","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}