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What it means to be avant-garde

Title
What it means to be avant-garde / David Antin.
Author
Antin, David.
Publication
New York : New Directions, 1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
  • Frezzolini, Sylvia
  • New Directions Publishing, publisher.
  • James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
Description
207 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
What it means to be avant-garde is David Antin's third collection of "talk poems" published by New Directions. As in his earlier talking at the boundaries (1976), and tuning (winner of the 1984 PEN/Los Angeles Literary Award for Poetry), Antin's brilliant improvised disquisitions at once challenge readers' expectations even as they instruct and entertain. A poet, performance artist, art critic, and professor of visual arts, Antin, since his college days in New York in the '50s, has been at the cutting edge of the avant-garde. The avant-garde? Yes, if by this is meant not an image of fashion but the place where art and life intersect, imparting to both a greater urgency - if is meant the place where experience and knowledge find their deepest expression, where the idea of a universal language can find shape, where the price of art is itself, where the fringe is the very center of existence.
Series Statement
  • New Directions paperbook ; 760
  • NDP760
Uniform Title
New Directions paperbook ; 760.
Subjects
Note
  • "A New Directions book" -- title page.
  • "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
Indexed In (note)
  • Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
Binding (note)
  • bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Sylvia Frezzolini.
Contents
the fringe -- spring love noise and all -- what it means to be avant-garde -- durations -- the price -- the river -- the structuralist.
Call Number
Berg Coll Antin W53 1993
ISBN
  • 0811212386
  • 9780811212380
LCCN
93009189
OCLC
27339367
Author
Antin, David.
Title
What it means to be avant-garde / David Antin.
Imprint
New York : New Directions, 1993.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 760
NDP760
New Directions paperbook ; 760.
Indexed In:
Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 135
Binding
Copy in Berg Coll 22-532 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Sylvia Frezzolini. NN
Local Note
Copy in Berg Coll 22-532 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
Berg Coll. copy contains: "ADC" embossed stamp on t.p.
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Added Author
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.
Frezzolini, Sylvia, cover designer.
New Directions Publishing, publisher.
Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.
Javitch, Daniel, donor.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.
James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
Charters, Ann, Former owner.
Other Form:
Online version: Antin, David. What it means to be avant-garde. New York : New Directions, 1993 (OCoLC)621414954
Research Call Number
Berg Coll 22-532
Berg Coll Antin W53 1993
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