In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807848336 ISBN 13: 9780807848333

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999

Synopsis

Celebrating poet Robert Creeley's pathbreaking role as an artistic collaborator, this illustrated volume adds substantially to the documented history of contemporary multidisciplinary art. For more than forty years, Creeley has worked on collaborative projects with some of the best-known artists of our time, including Georg Baselitz, Francesco Clemente, Jim Dine, R. B. Kitaj, Marisol, and Susan Rothenberg. In Company explores this history with essays, interviews, archival photographs, and images of the books and portfolios created, from Numbers (1968) with Robert Indiana to Edges (1997) with Alex Katz. An accompanying CD-ROM features interactive presentations of the projects.

The publication of In Company coincides with a traveling exhibition organized by the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University. The exhibition, which opened in Niagara this spring and will travel to the New York Public Library in September, will also appear at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, and Stanford University's Green Library.

Robert Creeley, winner of the 1999 Bollingen Prize and author of more than 60 volumes of poetry, is Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and Humanities at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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This illustrated volume celebrates poet Robert Creeley s innovative role over several decades as an artistic collaborator with some of the best known artists of our time. Includes a CD-ROM.

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"When he [Creeley] sent me Mabel, I didn't have idea about what to do but I thought it was as good a chance to do what I wanted to do in etching as anything else. And Creeley embraced it-this is a big point about Bob-because he embraces everything. If it's you, he embraces it."--excerpt from interview with Jim Dine

"That Creeley has been able to focus so closely and openly on one of humankind's deepest impulses. the desire for intimacy, without ever becoming overtly personal or anecdotal, is both a distinctive and distinguishing feature of his writing. ...His refusal to escape the empirical self, to return to it again and again, as he does in both his collaborations with [Georg] Baselitz] and his many projects with [Francesco] Clemente, places him squarely in a tradition that includes Jasper Johns. ...For Creeley, collaboration has become a way for him to both designate and discover the particulars inherent to time and space. The point, as his recent book, Life and Death (New York: New Directions, 1998) makes clear, is to keep one's eyes open, to be attentive to reality, and the self amidst it, for as long as humanly possible."--excerpt from Jon Yau's essay: "Active Participant: Robert Creeley and the Visual Arts"

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807848336
• ISBN 13: 9780807848333
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 108
• Editor: Cappellazzo Amy, Licata Elizabeth