{"product_id":"singular-examples-artistic-politics-and-the-neo-avant-garde-hardback-9780810125117","title":"Singular Examples; Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Hardback) 9780810125117","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSingular Examples\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eArtistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTyrus Miller (Author), Marjorie Perloff (Series edited by), Rainer Rumold (Series edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810125117\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 January 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages, Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.3 x 15.7 x 2 cm, 0.568 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial 'compositions' - verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematic - of the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. It also considers the artistic politics of these postwar avant-gardes and their works. The book's geographical span is primarily the United States, although in its more extended reach, it comprehends an international context of American postwar cultural hegemony throughout what was once referred to as 'the free world'.The works and the artists Miller takes up are those of the so-called neo - avant-garde with its inherent contradiction: an avant-garde whose newness is defined by its seeming reiteration of an earlier historical formation. Concentrating on the rhetorical, contextual, and performative characteristic of neo - avant-garde practice, including its relation to politics, Miller emphasizes the centrality of the example in this practice. John Cage, Jackson Mac Low, Gilbert Sorrentino, David Tudor, Stan Brakhage, and Samuel Beckett are among the artists whose exemplary works feature in \"\"Singular Examples\"\".Miller's key readings of these major artists of the period open up some of the most difficult texts of the neo - avant-garde even as they contribute to an eloquent argument for 'artistic politics'. Underlining the relation between material particulars and their thematic implications, between particular works and larger theoretical claims, between avant-garde aesthetics and formalist analysis, \"\"Singular Examples\"\" is exemplary in its own right, revealing the ultimate shape and direction of a postwar avant-garde contending with the historical predicaments of radical modernism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eExample 1: Introduction: Latter-Day Modernists\u003cbr\u003e Part One: Out of the Cage\u003cbr\u003e Example 2: Situation and Event: From The Pronouns to the Destinations of Sense\u003cbr\u003e Example 3: Anarchy by Design: On Jackson Mac Low's Stanzas for Iris Lezak\u003cbr\u003e Example 4: Pound's Cantos Lost and Found: Paragram and Authority in John Cage and Jackson Mac Low\u003cbr\u003e Example 5: Merzing History: Kurt Schwitters, Jackson Mac Low, and the Aesthetics of Data Trash\u003cbr\u003e Example 6: Transduced Objects and Spiritual Automata: Dimensions of Experience in David Tudor's Live Electronics\u003cbr\u003e Part Two: Forays to the Dark Side\u003cbr\u003e Example 7: Brakhage's Occasions: Figure, Subjectivity, and Avant-Garde Politics\u003cbr\u003e Example 8: Fictional Truths: Sorrentino's Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things Between Image and Language\u003cbr\u003e Example 9: Beckett's Political Technology: Expression, Confession, and Torture in the Later Drama\u003cbr\u003e Part Three: Coda\u003cbr\u003e Example 10: Didactic Drifts: One or More Conclusions Notes.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555665932568,"sku":"9780810125117","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/singular-examples-artistic-politics-and-the-neo-avant-garde-hardback-9780810125117","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}