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In search of the third bird : exemplary essays from the proceedings of ESTAR(SER), 2001-2021

Title
In search of the third bird : exemplary essays from the proceedings of ESTAR(SER), 2001-2021 / D. Graham Burnett, Catherine L. Hansen, Justin E. H. Smith, editors.
Publication
  • London : Strange Attractor Press, 2021.
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Burnett, D. Graham
  • Hansen, Catherine L.
  • Smith, Justin E. H.
  • ESTAR(SER). Works. Selections.
Description
753 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"The real history of the covey of attention-artists who call themselves "The Birds." A great deal of uncertainty--and even some genuine confusion--surrounds the origin, evolution, and activities of the so-called Avis Tertia or "Order of the Third Bird." Sensational accounts of this "attentional cult" emphasize histrionic rituals, tragic trance-addictions, and the covert dissemination of obscurantist ontologies of the art object. Hieratic, ecstatic, and endlessly evasive, the Order attracts sensual misfits and cabalistic aesthetes--both to its ranks, and to its scholarship. In recent years, however, the revisionist work of the research collective ESTAR(SER) has done much to clear the air, bringing archival precision to the history of this covey of attention-artists who call themselves "The Birds." Gathering the best articles of the last twenty years of The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER), this volume represents a landmark in the history of aesthetic practices, and will be a point of departure for future work wading the muddy marshes at the limits of historicism."--Publisher description.
Subject
Art > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I. Preliminaries : "Birds" as a Historical Problem: Considerations on the State of the Field / Eigil zu Tage-Ravn -- Estar(ser) and the W-Cache: The State of the Discussion / Gregg C. Toomey -- A Publication History of the Proceedings of Estar(ser): 1880-2014 / Kyrre Mirador -- II. Attention and Its Objects : The Eads Sublation: Fly-Fishing, Kentucky Hegelianism, and Evolutionary Theory in American Bird Practices, 1821-1889 / Cisco T. Laertes -- The Nachtigall Convolute: A Previously Unknown Ottoman Protocol, Turkish Practices in the 1940s, and Possible Links between the Order of the Third Bird and the Work of Erich Auerbach / The Niblach Working Group -- The Vorkuta Antinomy: Kant, the Birds, and Primavianist Deviations in the USSR / Yu. K. Kuznetsov -- III. Metempsychoses : Met-Him-Pike-Hoses: The Literature of Amphibious Ecstasis in the Americas, 1948-1968 / The Greer Papers Working Group -- The Rülek Scrolls and the Practice of the Door: Marton Bialek (1892-?), Central Asian Syncretism, and the Guardian of the Threshold / Easter McCraney -- Madame Banksia: Margaret Preston's Flower Gazing and the Japonist Protocols of Félix Régamey / The Preston Working Group -- IV. Rogues and Renegades : The Vater Legacy: The Philistine Controversy and the Order of the Third Bird in Germany, 1684-1888 / Ansgar Bleibtreu -- The Fitzwilliam Schism: Practical Criticism and Practical Aesthesis in Britain and Beyond, 1925-1975 / The Sevens Working Group -- "Fix Your Eyes Right Here!": The Life and Times of Inyard Kip Ketchem, the Performing Attention Doctor / The William James Working Group -- V. Gatherings : The Kittiwake Dossier: Object-Oriented Aggregation and Foundational Efforts of the Order among the Parisian Surrealists, 1932-1941 / Joanna Fiduccia -- The Magpie Trove: Decoying the New York School, 1950-1985 / Caitlin Sweeney -- The Mazumdar Legacy: Practical Aesthesis, Practical Politics, & the Order within the Jorasanko Triangle, 1910-1930 / The Working Group to Decolonize the Proceedings -- VI. Remains : The Finding Aid Folder: Seeking Order in the Archives of the Order / The Meta-Archival Working Group.
Call Number
JQE 22-102
ISBN
  • 9781913689360
  • 1913689360
OCLC
1272884383
Title
In search of the third bird : exemplary essays from the proceedings of ESTAR(SER), 2001-2021 / D. Graham Burnett, Catherine L. Hansen, Justin E. H. Smith, editors.
Publisher
London : Strange Attractor Press, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Burnett, D. Graham, editor.
Hansen, Catherine L., editor.
Smith, Justin E. H., editor.
ESTAR(SER). Works. Selections.
Research Call Number
JQE 22-102
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