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Book SynopsisPresents the essays that range from front-line interventions in debates on poetics to fugitive pieces from the '60s and '70s. From Andy Warhol to Allan Kaprow, Mark Rothko to Ludwig Wittgenstein, this title takes the reader on an idiosyncratic, personal journey through twentieth-century culture.
Trade Review"Ever since he began publishing in the mid-sixties, David Antin has been a remarkably interesting and intelligent poet." -New York Times "A decade before he became the seminal 'talk poet' we all know, David Antin was already writing some of the best art criticism in America. In the waning days of Abstract Expressionism, Antin introduced other ways of thinking about art that looked ahead to twenty-first-century modes of conceptualism, performance, and digital poetics. This superb selection from his writings, which brings together essays-some of them already classics-and a number of talk-pieces from the last forty years, is a real treasure." -Marjorie Perloff"
