I never knew what time it was

Author/Creator:

Antin, David

Publication/Creation:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005

Resource Type:

Book

Edition:

1st ed.

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

I never knew what time it was David Antin

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Performance art--Texts
Arts--California
California--Civilization

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

The theory and practice of postmodernism: a manifesto -- California: the nervous camel -- Café Europa -- Talking at Blérancourt -- 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.

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.

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936719301802486

ISBN:

1-282-76313-X
9786612763137
0-520-93829-1
1-59875-531-5

OCLC Number:

475938252
60407992
1058899814

Other Identifiers:

doi: 10.1525/9780520938298