I never knew what time it was / David Antin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antin, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance art--Texts.

Performance art.

Arts--California.

Arts.

California--Civilization.

California.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this series of intricately related texts, internationally known poet, critic, and performance artist David Antin explores the experience of time-how it's felt, remembered, and recounted. These free-form talk pieces-sometimes called talk poems or simply talks-began as improvisations at museums, universities, and poetry centers where Antin was invited to come and think out loud. Serious and playful, they move rapidly from keen analysis to powerful storytelling to passages of pure comedy, as they range kaleidoscopically across Antin's experiences: in the New York City of his childhood and youth, the Eastern Europe of family and friends, and the New York and Southern California of his art and literary career. The author's analysis and abrasive comedy have been described as a mix of Lenny Bruce and Ludwig Wittgenstein, his commitment to verbal invention and narrative as a fusion of Mark Twain and Gertrude Stein. Taken together, these pieces provide a rich oral history of and critical context for the evolution of the California art scene from the 1960's onward.

Contents:

The theory and practice of postmodernism: a manifesto

California: the nervous camel

Cafe Europa

Talking at Blerancourt

The noise of time

I never knew what time it was

Time on my hands

How wide is the frame

What happened to Walter

Endangered nouns.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612763137

9781282763135

128276313X

9780520938298

0520938291

9781598755312

1598755315

OCLC:

475938252