Published in 1931, CIOPW includes 99 examples of Cummings’s visual art in charcoal, ink, oil, pencil, and watercolor.
Richard Kostelanetz
Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz appear in Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, the Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Webster’s Dictionary of American Authors, and the Encyclopedia Britannica, among other distinguished directories.
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The Artist as Acerbic Critic: Donald Judd’s Writings
A new volume of Donald Judd’s art criticism contains previously published essays, rejected ones, and choice passages from his notebooks.
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The Lasting Presence of a 51-Year-Old Performance Piece
First performed in 1965, Robert Whitman’s “Prune. Flat.” contrasts cinematic images with live performers to create its own kind of theater.
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Learning Little from John Cage’s Letters
Some of us didn’t need letters from him, because he trusted us to do what we did without requiring his instruction or encouragement.
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All Wrong About Lower Manhattan: Rereading Sharon Zukin
In the course of writing The Rise and Fall of Artists’ SoHo (Routledge), I read several earlier books about lofts and artists in lower Manhattan. The most embarrassing by far, in spite of some research worth crediting, was Sharon Zukin’s Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change.
