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Pop Poetics: Reframing Joe Brainard
Andy Fitch
Pop artists (painters and poets) often get praised or criticized for their use of low-brow commercial iconography. Yet either appraisal obscures the rigors of Pop serial design . . .
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Blind Man's Bluff
Aidan Higgins
Perversely, but perhaps appropriately, Aidan Higgins—-one of the few contemporary writers worthy of comparison with Beckett and Joyce-—has chosen to wait until his sight has nearly left him to assemble this collection of visual treats . . .
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Man + Doctor
Nick Wadley
"Most of these images were drawn in the bed of a London hospital, either the Royal Free or the Princess Grace, between 2004 and 2010. The rest of the drawings are memories and afterthoughts from the same times." The wordless story of encounters . . .
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Man + Dog
Nick Wadley
Painter and art historian Nick Wadley—who has curated exhibitions on Kurt Schwitters, Franciszka Themerson, Gaberbocchus Press, and Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi—here turns his attentive and whimsical eye to one of life’s most essential relationships. With...
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Literature and Cinematography
Viktor Shklovsky, Irina Masinovsky
In this short, brilliant book, Viktor Shklovsky enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, just as importantly, what they are not. In the course of defining what art is, by implication he also quietly lays to waste the theories and people...
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Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard, and First-Person Film
Bruce F. Kawin
In the opening chapter of this groundbreaking work, Bruce Kawin asks: can a film—which is already the dream of its maker and its audience, and which can present itself as the dream of one of its characters—appear, finally, to dream itself...
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Forms and Substances in the Arts
Etienne Gilson, Salvator Attanasio
An engaging companion piece to The Arts of the Beautiful, this volume advances Etienne Gilson's theories about art as a process of "making" by focusing on the substances available to an artist.
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