’Pataphysics Unrolled

A collection of critical and creative essays exploring pataphysics, a late nineteenth-century French absurdist precursor to Dadaism, surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd. Reveals how pataphysics has been a platform and medium for persistent intellectual, poetic, conceptual, and artistic experimentation for over a century.

About the author

Katie L. Price is Senior Associate Director at the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility at Swarthmore College, codirector of the Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium, and Interviews Editor at Jacket2. She is the author of the chapbook BRCA: Birth of a Patient.Michael R. Taylor is Artistic Director and Chief Curator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He is the author of Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, and Thomas Chimes: Adventures in ’Pataphysics.

Summary

A collection of critical and creative essays exploring pataphysics, a late nineteenth-century French absurdist precursor to Dadaism, surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd. Reveals how pataphysics has been a platform and medium for persistent intellectual, poetic, conceptual, and artistic experimentation for over a century.

Product details

• Assisted by: Katie L. Price (Editor), Katie L. (Swarthmore College) Price (Editor), Michael R. Taylor (Editor), Michael R. (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) Taylor (Editor), Taylor Michael R. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2024
• EAN: 9780271089591
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08959-1
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 241 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Series: Refiguring Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Theory of art, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Art & Design Styles: Pre-Raphaelite Art