One Foot in the Other World

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Essays. Paul Maziar's ONE FOOT is a chatty carousel, covering the last ten years of art in and around Portland, Oregon. Tumbling between observation, reflection, and digression, he tells the stories of what it's like to be there, in front of that painting, in that art scene, in the second decade of the twenty-first century. This has the great advantage of being a critic's 'first' book, where the reader shares in working out foundational concepts of whatever 'art' or 'painting' or 'writing' is or might be. As Maziar says of Marcel Duchamp's 'shaved' Mona Lisa--'I like that he did this.'--Jarrett Earnest

About the author

Paul Maziar writes about art and books for various publications such as BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, Los Angeles Review of Books, Oregon ArtsWatch, L.A. Weekly, and RREALISM. His monograph, Roger Kukes: Thirty Years, was published in 2019, and TO THE AIR, his poetry book in collaboration with artist Cynthia Lahti, was published by the Cooley Gallery at Reed College in 2020. Paul is a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Maziar
• Publisher: Ac Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781939901163
• ISBN: 978-1-939901-16-3
• No. of pages: 489
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 203 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 816 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies