{"product_id":"it-is-almost-that-9780979956263","title":"It Is Almost That","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntuitively and practically speaking, This Is Almost That is, in effect, a handbook. It, by presenting female art history, shows us how to be an artist. Each career here, whether its arc is short or long, presents a new kind of way. -- Eileen Miles * Poetry Foundation *\u003cbr\u003eThe title of this surprising collection of image\/text works by twenty-five female visual artists and writers is a phrase borrowed from a 1977 artwork by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. As Lisa Pearson writes in her afterword, It Is Almost That describes \"the humming state of the not-quite this and not quite that,\" namely, \"what familiar taxonomies cannot order.\" Hak Kyung Cha's piece-composed of faltering phrases projected on black-and-white slides-points to the provisional nature of language and speech. While Pearson's penchant for this open, indeterminate state might seem at first to evoke categories like ecriture feminine, twentieth-century Language-school poetry, or non-diegetic experimental filmmaking, her selections, works produced over a span of seventy-one years from Charlotte Salomon's 1940 visual novel Life? Or Theater? A Song Play to Bhanu \u0026amp; Rohini Kapil's 2011 India Notebooks, defy easy classification. Chris Kraus - Bookforum, Jun. 6, 2011 -- Chris Kraus * Bookforum *\u003cbr\u003ePearson outlines her own gender philosophies in art, along with the criteria for her self-confessed \"surprising selection,\" omitting \"obvious choices,\" to create an introspective, free-flowing collection that \"will incite more questions than answers.\" Such is the nature of art, and a testament to this fine anthology. * Publisher's Weekly *","brand":"Siglio Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885134917975,"sku":"9780979956263","price":34.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/it-is-almost-that-9780979956263","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}