{"product_id":"correspondence-course-9780822345114","title":"Correspondence Course","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn epistolary history of the international avant-garde of happenings, Fluxus, and performance and conceptual art emerges from decades of correspondence between Carolee Schneemann and other artists and intellectuals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCorrespondence Course\u003c\/i\u003e is a book at once combative and communal, aesthetic and feminist. Schneeman chronicles a life dedicated to uncompromised artistic exploration of her own assumptions, as well as those of others, all in the name of conceptual progress.” - Trinie Dalton, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One realizes in reading this hefty collection just how stealthily [Stiles] has made her way through the culture of her times, how she has maintained a brilliant dwelling for her creative process and psychic space, and steered a course based entirely on her own unique direction. \u003ci\u003eCorrespondence Course\u003c\/i\u003e offers an ingenious view into a cultural life that does not fit neatly into the history books, if it’s there at all.” - Stephen Motika,\u003ci\u003e Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A]n amazing look into the heart, soul, and psyche of a trend setting artist.” - Gypsey Elaine Teague, \u003ci\u003eARLIS\/NA Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A thick book of exuberant and extensive correspondence is a wonderful rarity in this era of tweets, emoticons, and Facebook updates. . . . [T]his selection provides an engaging historical document of a major segment of the American avant-garde in the last half of the 20th century. . . . Throughout her correspondence, Schneemann has the remarkable quality of being both unfailingly giving and fiercely honest.” - Kim Levin, \u003ci\u003eARTNews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCorrespondence Course\u003c\/i\u003e is many things: it is a book that encompasses an impressive amount of historical data that is of immense use to any\u003cbr\u003eresearcher of late 20th-century art. It is also an archive of an extraordinary life during a time of tremendous changes in society and technology. Finally, it is a gripping story, at times difficult to put down—not your typical art historical\u003cbr\u003ebook—and a tremendous achievement on the part of the editor, the artist and the publisher.” - Kathy Battista, \u003ci\u003eArt Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An accidental record of the way friends, enemies, the art world and ideas all crowd into an artist’s work can be found in \u003ci\u003eCorrespondence Course\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . What a fascinating cacophony it is. . . . It is unusual to be given access to this kind of archive during the central figure’s lifetime. . . .” - Barry Schwabsky, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kristine Stiles’s subtitle, \u003ci\u003eAn Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle\u003c\/i\u003e, suggests that like the correspondence of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, these letters will afford a privileged insight into the cultural milieu in which they were written. The first section in the book, focused on 1956–1968, may have the most historical \u003ci\u003eéclat\u003c\/i\u003e, but Schneemann’s letters are great throughout the forty-three years the book covers, and Stiles performed a careful and attentive scholarly treatment of them. This book is another brick in the edifice of modern art.”—\u003cb\u003eThomas McEvilley\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Not only a revelatory stroll in Carolee Schneemann’s teeming archive, \u003ci\u003eCorrespondence Course\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that letters, no less than canvases or installations, are works of art. An exquisitely dense meditation on address, Schneemann’s revelatory letters and Kristine Stiles’s deft critical framing perform a radical reconception of art history itself. At once deeply personal and profoundly philosophical, \u003ci\u003eCorrespondence Course\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates and complicates pretty much every notion I have had about the past fifty years of avant-garde art. A brilliant, breathtaking, stunning book.”—\u003cb\u003ePeggy Phelan\u003c\/b\u003e, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCorrespondence Course\u003c\/i\u003e is a book at once combative and communal, aesthetic and feminist. Schneeman chronicles a life dedicated to uncompromised artistic exploration of her own assumptions, as well as those of others, all in the name of conceptual progress.” -- Trinie Dalton * Bookforum *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCorrespondence Course\u003c\/i\u003e is many things: it is a book that encompasses an impressive amount of historical data that is of immense use to any researcher of late 20th-century art. It is also an archive of an extraordinary life during a time of tremendous changes in society and technology. Finally, it is a gripping story, at times difficult to put down—not your typical art historical book—and a tremendous achievement on the part of the editor, the artist and the publisher.” -- Kathy Battista * Art Monthly *\u003cbr\u003e“[A]n amazing look into the heart, soul, and psyche of a trend setting artist.” -- Gypsey Elaine Teague * ARLIS\/NA Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e“A thick book of exuberant and extensive correspondence is a wonderful rarity in this era of tweets, emoticons, and Facebook updates. . . . [T]his selection provides an engaging historical document of a major segment of the American avant-garde in the last half of the 20th century. . . . Throughout her correspondence, Schneemann has the remarkable quality of being both unfailingly giving and fiercely honest.” -- Kim Levin * ARTNews *\u003cbr\u003e“An accidental record of the way friends, enemies, the art world and ideas all crowd into an artist’s work can be found in \u003ci\u003eCorrespondence Course\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . What a fascinating cacophony it is. . . . It is unusual to be given access to this kind of archive during the central figure’s lifetime. . . .” -- Barry Schwabsky * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003e“One realizes in reading this hefty collection just how stealthily [Stiles] has made her way through the culture of her times, how she has maintained a brilliant dwelling for her creative process and psychic space, and steered a course based entirely on her own unique direction. \u003ci\u003eCorrespondence Course\u003c\/i\u003e offers an ingenious view into a cultural life that does not fit neatly into the history books, if it’s there at all.” -- Stephen Motika * Bomb *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations vii\u003cbr\u003e Preface xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xxi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction xxv\u003cbr\u003e The Letters \u003cbr\u003e 1956–1968 3\u003cbr\u003e 1969–1975 142\u003cbr\u003e 1976–1986 269\u003cbr\u003e 1987–1999 382\u003cbr\u003e Index 491","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406056202583,"sku":"9780822345114","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822345114.jpg?v=1730494381","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/correspondence-course-9780822345114","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}