’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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Katie L. Price (Editore), Katie L. (Swarthmore College) Price (Editore), Michael R. Taylor (Editore), Michael R. (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) Taylor (Editore), Taylor Michael R. (Editore)
• Editore: University Presses
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 22.10.2024
• EAN: 9780271089591
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08959-1
• Dimensioni: 178 mm x 241 mm x 24 mm
• Peso: 680 g
• Illustrazioni: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Serie: Refiguring Modernism
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte; 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