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Gus Blaisdell collected / selected and edited by William Peterson ; coedited by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blaisdell, Gus.
- Standardized Title:
- Selections. 2012
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Blaisdell, Gus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (418 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This long-awaited collection of Blaisdell's critical writings includes essays on literature, art, and film, along with moving tributes by some of the distinguished writers who numbered Blaisdell among their friends.
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Editor's Preface; Introduction: On "Slipping Across": Reading, Friendship, Otherness; ON PHOTOGRAPHS; Absorbing Inventories: Thomas Barrow's Libraries Series; Afterworld: The Photographs of Joel-Peter Witkin; Bldgs: Photographs by Lewis Baltz; Space Begins Because We Look Away from Where We Are: Lewis Baltz's Candlestick Point; Buried Silk Exhumed: The Lewis Baltz Retrospective, Rule Without Exception; From "Obscenity in Thy Mother's Milk": John Gossage's Hey Fuckface! Portfolio; Thirteen Ways of NOT Looking at a Gossage Photograph
- Passion Misfits Us All: Wim Wenders's Paris, TexasMr. Death's Blue-Eyed Boy: Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket; Still Moving; Highlighting Hitchcock's Vertigo with Magic Marker; ON PAINTING; Frank Stella's The Whiteness of the Whale; Passion's Pine Breeze: The Paintings of Terry Conway; On In: Outside: Guy Williams, Selected Works 1976-1982; Original Face: Allan Graham's Moon 2; Poem: ""Omoide No Tsukimi""; ON READING AND WRITING; A Gloss Annexed; Vatic Writing: Evan S. Connell's Notes from a Bottle . . .; Tell It Like It Is: The Experimental Traditionalists; Rebus
- What Was Called "A Thought Echoed in Sight": Yvor Winters' CentenaryPoem: ""Occasional Loquats""; For Robert Creeley on His 70th Birthday; A Nobler Seduction: On Plato's Phaedrus at The Greenwood Press; Slipping Across; FICTION; Introduction: Radical Philosophical Reclamation & Wrecking, Project: TLP Hotel; Radical Philosophical Reclamation & Wrecking, Part 1; Radical Philosophical Reclamation & Wrecking, Part 2; Radical Philosophical Reclamation & Wrecking, Part 3; Radical Philosophical Reclamation & Wrecking, Part 4; SHORTS AND EXCERPTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE
- Self, Embodied: Correspondence with Nicholas BrownriggOn Objecthood and Art: Letter to Marcy Goodwin; On Art Criticism and Gus's Writing Method: Letter to Geoffrey Young; On Writing and Its Discontents: Letters to Geoffrey Young; A Vigorous Lucidity: An Autobiographical Note on Book Editing and Design; Autobiographical Note: Letter to Lee F. Gerlach; Working Through It: Letters to Ross Feld; A Postscript to "Working Through It": Letter from Ross Feld; Envoi; A Chronology; Bibliography; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613883674
- 9781283571227
- 1283571226
- 9780826342423
- 0826342426
- OCLC:
- 817809694
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