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Reading in four dimensions: The poe...

Schwartzburg, Mary Alden.

Reading in four dimensions: The poetics of the contemporary experimental book (Ann Hamilton, Tom Phillips, Susan Barron, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roni Horn).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reading in four dimensions: The poetics of the contemporary experimental book (Ann Hamilton, Tom Phillips, Susan Barron, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roni Horn).
Author:	Schwartzburg, Mary Alden.
Description:	270 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Marjorie Perloff.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3381.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-09A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3145527
ISBN:	0496044702

Reading in four dimensions: The poetics of the contemporary experimental book (Ann Hamilton, Tom Phillips, Susan Barron, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roni Horn).
Schwartzburg, Mary Alden.

Reading in four dimensions: The poetics of the contemporary experimental book (Ann Hamilton, Tom Phillips, Susan Barron, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roni Horn). - 270 p.

Adviser: Marjorie Perloff.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2004.

This dissertation is a study of contemporary experiments with book form by artists and poets. Its main goal is to show that, like innovations in film and the new media that have already become part of literary-critical discourse, experimental books comprise a rich field of aesthetic inquiry that intersects with contemporary concerns in literary study. I consider five works that are attentive to the book's status as an "extradisciplinary" object, one that is outside of---yet at the same time literally contains---established models of both poiesis and interpretation. These works include the installation tropos by Ann Hamilton; the altered book A Humument by Tom Phillips; the sculptural book Twisting Silence by Susan Barron; the pamphlet Two Poems by Ian Hamilton Finlay; and the photographic book Another Water by Roni Horn. Dislodging these works from existing critical contexts, I take an approach that is best described as explicatory. My work is close reading, albeit transformed and framed by the poetic, critical and theoretical trends of recent decades which have, in turn, influenced book experimentation. Each chapter concerns a book that is a performance of something that resembles reading, providing a sort of mirror in which the reader can study his own actions; I have used the word "poetics" in my title to emphasize that what results is a reader whose acts are themselves creative. More broadly, I suggest that critical study of our aesthetic responses to books of all kinds should more frequently go hand in hand with the rich historical and editorial work more commonly undertaken today. The project also works towards a secondary goal: as "artists' books," as the works I discuss are usually termed, have gained recognition in the mainstream of visual art discourse in recent decades, excellent histories, surveys and exhibition catalogs have come to dominate the field of critical response. This work of canon formation has left unexamined the questions about perception, genre and disciplinarity that individual books raise. As the first sustained study of individual books, this project seeks to suggest new directions for scholarship on this flourishing field of artistic experimentation.

ISBN: 0496044702Subjects--Topical Terms:

180518
Literature, Modern.

Reading in four dimensions: The poetics of the contemporary experimental book (Ann Hamilton, Tom Phillips, Susan Barron, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roni Horn).
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