Against expression : an anthology of conceptual writing

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Against expression : an anthology of conceptual writing

Title remainder

an anthology of conceptual writing

Statement of responsibility

edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith

Contributor

• Dworkin, Craig Douglas
• Goldsmith, Kenneth
• Goldsmith, Kenneth
• Dworkin, Craig Douglas

Subject

• Conceptual art
• Experimental poetry
• Literature, Experimental
• Literature, Modern -- 20th century
• Literature, Modern -- 21st century

Language

eng

Summary

Charles Bernstein has described conceptual "poetry pregnant with thought." Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, and disturbing. Editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith chart the trajectory of the conceptual aesthetic from early precursors such as Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp through major avant-garde groups of the past century, including Dada, Oulipo, Fluxus, and language poetry, to name just a few. The works of more than a hundred writers from Aasprong to Zykov demonstrate a remarkable variety of new ways of thinking about the nature of texts, information, and art, using found, appropriated, and randomly generated texts to explore the possibilities of non-expressive language. --Book Jacket

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• AGM collection

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IEN/DLC

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Avant-garde & modernism collection