Shop > Artists' Books

Out of Stock
#10017

BLAST

Date
2012
Publisher
Mercer Union
Format
Artists' Books
Details
Softcover
ISBN
978-1-926627-17-5
Size
13.5 × 21.3 × 1.5 cm
Length
192 
Description

BLAST COUNTERBLAST features contributions by Stuart Bailey, Andrej Blatnik, Joerg Becker and Irena Knezevic, Elijah Burgher, Cameron Crawford, Jon Davies, Leif Elggren, Maria Fusco, Matthea Harvey and Adam Shecter, Nelson Henricks, Mike Hoolboom, Irena Knezevic, Erin Leland, Jessie Mott, My Barbarian, Christine Negus, Darren O?Donnell, Academy Records, Lane Relyea, John Russell, Jim Trainor, Ryan Trecartin, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

BLAST COUNTERBLAST is a multifaceted, fascinating examination of the way intellectuals interact — through influence, through argumentation, and through criticism. Looking at both Wyndham Lewis’s modernist publication BLAST and Marshall McLuhan’s 1969 response to it, COUNTERBLAST, the contributors to this volume — a selection of writers, visual artists, performers, and filmmakers — skewer relational aesthetics and identity politics in order to restate what the role of identity formation is today. Taking McLuhan and Lewis as starting points, the essays in this volume develop and push the ideas presented in both BLAST and COUNTERBLAST while the book design by Toronto’s Underline Studio pays homage to both thinkers’ experiments in typography.

  1. BLAST
 

Related Items

  1. David Beattie: The Weight of the Sky
  2. For Lack of Evidence
  3. Brian Joseph Davis: Yesterduh
  4. Lars Ahlstrom and Hans Anders Molin: Airspace
  5. David Askevold and Christina Ritchie: Activating the Archive 4: Double Agent
  6. Colin Campbell and Bruce ed. Ferguson: Activating the Archive 2: Otherwise Worldly
  7. Greg Curnoe: Blue Book no. 8
  8. Emily Vey Duke: I’d Rather be Polymorphous Perverse
  9. Robert Fones: Field Identification
  10. AA Bronson and Hamish Fulton: Ajawaan
  11. Steve Kado: 2003 (#4)