Finding Nothing : : The VanGardes, 1959-1975 / / Gregory Betts.
Experimental literature accelerated dramatically in Vancouver in the 1960s as the influence of New American poetics merged with the ideas of Marshall McLuhan. Vancouver poets and artists began thinking about their creative works with new clarity and set about testing and redefining the boundaries of...
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Betts, Gregory, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Finding Nothing : The VanGardes, 1959-1975 / Gregory Betts. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (392 p.) : 120 b&w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Finding Nothing -- ONE 1–19 Thoughts on TISH, 1961–1969 (A Document of Response) -- TWO The Birth of Blew -- THREE Blew Collage -- FOUR A Line, A New Line, All One: Variant Narratives of Concrete Canada -- FIVE The Triumph of Surrealism: Magick Art in Vancouver -- SIX Performing Proprioception: The Birthing Story as Public Discourse -- SEVEN Avant Now and Then: Locating the Post-Avant -- Conclusion – “we stopped at nothing”: Finding Nothing in the Avant-Garde Archive -- Appendix A: Warren Tallman Elegy -- Appendix B: Concrete Poetry -- Appendix C: Glossary of Intermedia and Transdisciplinary Groups -- Appendix D: Letter to the Editor of the Georgia Straight -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Experimental literature accelerated dramatically in Vancouver in the 1960s as the influence of New American poetics merged with the ideas of Marshall McLuhan. Vancouver poets and artists began thinking about their creative works with new clarity and set about testing and redefining the boundaries of literature. As new gardes in Vancouver explored the limits of text and language, some writers began incorporating collage and concrete poetics into their work while others delved deeper into unsettling, revolutionary, and Surrealistic imagery. There was a presumption across the avant-garde communities that radical openness could provoke widespread socio-political change. In other words, the intermedia experimentation and the related destruction of the line between art and society pushed art to the frontlines of a broad socio-political battle of the collective imagination of Vancouver. Finding Nothing traces the rise of the radical avant-garde in Vancouver, from the initial salvos of the Tish group, through Blewointment’s spatial experiments, to radical Surrealisms and new feminisms. Incorporating images, original texts, and interviews, Gregory Betts shows how the VanGardes signaled a remarkable consciousness of the globalized forces at play in the city, impacting communities, orientations, races, and nations. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Arts British Columbia Vancouver Experimental methods. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) British Columbia Vancouver History 20thcentury. Canadian poetry 20th century History and criticism. Experimental poetry, Canadian British Columbia Vancouver History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian. bisacsh Blewointment. CanLit. Canadian art. Canadian literature. Intermedia. Marshall McLuhan. TISH. VanGardes. Vancouver. West Coast Surrealism. avant-garde. experimental writing. poetry. radical writing. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 English 9783110754124 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 9783110753899 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739220 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487531973 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487531973 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487531973/original |
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