"Yau tweaks and twists language to express a painful comic vision in which sensual vividness combines with fierce despair.""Booklist"
John Yau engages art criticism, social theory, and syntactical dexterity to confront the problems of aging, meaning, and identity. Insisting that "True poets and artists know where language ends, which is why they go there," Yau presses against the limits of language, creating poems that are at once cryptic, playful, and insightful. Included in its entirety is his groundbreaking serial poem, "Genghis Chan: Private Eye," and a new series invoking the...
"Yau tweaks and twists language to express a painful comic vision in which sensual vividness combines with fierce despair.""Booklist"
A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent charts a territory built of speculative histories, indeterminate landscapes, and mock narratives, all of them at the threshold linking exterior and interior worlds. Their logic is highly grammatical and slyly confounding, perfectly clear and drawn from dream. It is here, "between / what is occluded and what has elapsed," that Mahrer's ambiguous, disordered subjects begin their journeys.
A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent charts a territory built of speculative histories, indeterminate landscapes, and mock narratives, all...
This book will present a comprehensive view of the work of American painter Philip Taaffe b.1955, who has expanded the parameters of painting through his use of silkscreen, linocuts, collage, stencils, gouache, chine-coll, marbling, acrylic, enamel, watercolor, and gold leaf. Yaus insightful text is the first to look at every part of Taaffes artistic development, from the works he made at Cooper Union, while a student of Hans Haacke, to the present. It pays special attention to Taaffes acquisition of different techniques, as well as investigating his various sources of inspiration.
This book will present a comprehensive view of the work of American painter Philip Taaffe b.1955, who has expanded the parameters of painting through ...
