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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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 120 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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