Joe Brainard’s Art / / Yasmine Shamma.

Examines the multiple angles of the avant-garde poetry and art of Joe Brainard Joe Brainard’s work occupies the literal margins of New York school poetry, while also figuratively influencing its aesthetic margins, shaping the school from both within and without. Brainard was not only an important il...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 36 colour illustrations
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Notes on Contributors --
Introduction: Joe Brainard’s Collage Aesthetic --
Part I: Reflections and Recollections --
1 Joe, A Funny Nickname --
2 Joe Brainard: Tenderness and Gristle --
3 Smoking Joe --
4 Artist Statement --
5 Vulnerability in Joe Brainard’s Work --
Part II: Joe Brainard’s Visions and Visuals --
6 Joe Brainard: The Madonna of the Future --
7 Boom: Joe Brainard 1961–1963 --
8 Joe Brainard’s Still-Life Poetics --
Part III: Brainard and Others --
9 “Men with a Pair of Scissors”: Joe Brainard and John Ashbery’s Eclecticism --
10 The Friendly Way: Crafting Community in Joe Brainard’s Poetry --
11 Codes and Wounds: Exposure and Inviolability in the Work of Joe Brainard and Frank Bidart --
12 I Wonder: In Dialogue, On Dialogue --
Part IV: Brainard’s Books --
13 “Fuck Work”: The Reciprocity of Labor and Pleasure in Joe Brainard’s Writing --
14 A Queer Poetics of the Normal: Joe Brainard, Clothing, and Girlish Femininity --
15 The Memoir of Disappearance: Joe Brainard’s Bolinas Journal --
Afterword --
Index
Summary:Examines the multiple angles of the avant-garde poetry and art of Joe Brainard Joe Brainard’s work occupies the literal margins of New York school poetry, while also figuratively influencing its aesthetic margins, shaping the school from both within and without. Brainard was not only an important illustrator and friend to many New York school poets, he was also a respected collage artist, miniature artist, cartoonist, avid letter writer and serious poet. As the canon of avant-garde American poetry warmly embraces his poetry alongside his art, the field of literary criticism is freshly responding with enthusiasm to Brainard’s literary contribution with sophisticated scholarship and first-hand accounts which attend to both his textual and visual nuances. This collection offers the first place for the importance of Brainard’s poetry, collaborations and art to be recognised for their contribution and influence, all in one place.Key FeaturesFeatures series of established and new voices in contemporary American poetrySelected essays all focus on writing but transgress disciplinary lines to also incorporate consideration of Brainard’s visual practice at the same timeSuggests Brainard’s work informingly lined, bound , and shaped the poetics of American avant-gardeShifts critical attention to Brainard’s writing (while also attending to his well known comics and collages)Offers further analysis of Brainard’s art and work as uniquely queer in aesthetic practice
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781474436687
9783110780420
DOI:10.1515/9781474436687
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Yasmine Shamma.