
Joe Brainard's Art
Yasmine Shamma(Editor)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 3. April 2019
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-4744-3666-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 Features
Features 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
Key Features
Features 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
Reviews / Votes
Shamma has done a fine job of gathering commentary from Brainard's circle and beyond, bringing this "anti-heroic, humble and lyric" writer and artist into critical focus. These essays and tributes help us to fully appreciate the richness and complexity of both the man and his work. * Bonnie Costello, Boston University *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
36 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
610 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-3666-3 (9781474436663)
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Person
Yasmine Shamma is Professor of Literature at the University of Hull. She is the author of Spatial Poetics: Second Generation New York School Poetry (2018), editor of Joe Brainard's Art (2019) and lead editor of Migration Culture and Identity (2023). Alongside Rona Cran, she is co-founder of the Network for New York School Studies.
Content
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Joe Brainard's Collage Aesthetic Yasmine Shamma
Part 1: Reflections and RecollectionsJoe, A Funny Nickname - Alice Notley Tenderness and Gristle - Anne Waldman Smoking Joe - John Brainard Artist Statement - John Ashbery Vulnerability in Joe Brainard's Work - Edmund Berrigan
Part 2: Joe Brainard's Visions and VisualsJoe Brainard: The Madonna of the Future - Nathan KernanBoom: Joe Brainard 1961 - 1963 - Ron Padgett Joe Brainard's Still-Life Poetics - Jess Cotton
Part 3: Brainard and Others"Men with Pair of Scissors": Joe Brainard and John Ashbery's Eclecticism - Rona CranCodes and Wounds: Exposure and Inviolability in the Work of Joe Brainard and Frank Bidart - Anna SmaillThe Friendly Way: Crafting Community in Joe Brainard's Poetry - Brian GlaveyJoe Brainard's Conversations: On Dialogue, In Dialogue - Andrew Epstein Andy Fitch
Part 4: Brainard's Books"Fuck work": The Reciprocity of Labor and Pleasure in Joe Brainard's Writing - Nick Sturm Everyday Queers: Joe Brainard, Femininity, and the Queer Poetics of the Normal - Kimberly Lamm 'Saying Good-Bye': Joe Brainard's Bolinas Journal and Memoir as Disappearance - Timothy Keane
Afterword Marjorie Perloff
Part 1: Reflections and RecollectionsJoe, A Funny Nickname - Alice Notley Tenderness and Gristle - Anne Waldman Smoking Joe - John Brainard Artist Statement - John Ashbery Vulnerability in Joe Brainard's Work - Edmund Berrigan
Part 2: Joe Brainard's Visions and VisualsJoe Brainard: The Madonna of the Future - Nathan KernanBoom: Joe Brainard 1961 - 1963 - Ron Padgett Joe Brainard's Still-Life Poetics - Jess Cotton
Part 3: Brainard and Others"Men with Pair of Scissors": Joe Brainard and John Ashbery's Eclecticism - Rona CranCodes and Wounds: Exposure and Inviolability in the Work of Joe Brainard and Frank Bidart - Anna SmaillThe Friendly Way: Crafting Community in Joe Brainard's Poetry - Brian GlaveyJoe Brainard's Conversations: On Dialogue, In Dialogue - Andrew Epstein Andy Fitch
Part 4: Brainard's Books"Fuck work": The Reciprocity of Labor and Pleasure in Joe Brainard's Writing - Nick Sturm Everyday Queers: Joe Brainard, Femininity, and the Queer Poetics of the Normal - Kimberly Lamm 'Saying Good-Bye': Joe Brainard's Bolinas Journal and Memoir as Disappearance - Timothy Keane
Afterword Marjorie Perloff