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In Mary Ann Caws' book, "The Art of Interference : Stressed Readings in Verbal & Visual Texts" we find ourselves engaged in what must be one of the most genuinely interdisciplinary books around. As scholarship it is masterful. As a text for losing oneself in , it makes one realize that in this book we have left behind the well-travelled routes and are setting forth into new territory. *************************************** From the back cover write-up - Said Christopher Prendergast of King''s College : "Mary Ann Caws's book is a major step forward in our understanding of relations between text and image. She brings to the question a dazzling array of learning and insight in the service of a series of local raids across interdisciplinary and historical boundaries. The consequence is a literal disturbance and realignment of the subject, and in particular - through her emphasis on relations of resistance and 'interference' - a challenge to the new consensus whereby text and image are seen as essentially complementary in the general field of sign production." *************************************** Likewise, Michael Riffaterre of Columbia University said : "Caws brilliantly replaces the concept of a one-way representation of a representation with the dynamics of dialogue and mutual interference between verbal and visual art forms, and demonstrates how reading reorients not just the object seen, but the vision, training our gaze until we learn to look In Paul Claudel's felicitous phrase, ;the eye Listens', but with what speed and what range and what depth. So efficacious is the analyst's listening, viewing and interweaving of texts and pictures that her critical discourse acquires and partakes of the poetic power that makes the reading of art radically different from the mere perception of things." ******************************************* CHAPTERS :: INTRODUCTION - Dialogue and Stress, Arrest and Interference; Literal of Liberal : Translating Perception // MOVEMENTS AND SEEING - MODERNISM - Representing Bodies from Mannerism to Modernism: Cloaking, Re-Membering, and the Eliptical Effect // FUTURISM - Speed-reading, or Zipping up the Text // DADA - Partiality and the Ready Maid, or Representation by Reduction // SURREALISM - The Meaning of Surrealism, and Why it Matters / Pointing at the Surrealist Image / Contrary Relations : Surrealism in the books / Ladies Shot and Painted : Female Embodiment in Surrealist Art / Eye and Film : Buñuel's Act / The Great Reception : Surrealism and Kandinsky's Inner Eye /? CONCRETISM, SPATIALISM, AND OPTICAL POETRY - Edging and Hedging, o reading in the concrete / Seeing the Snag: Optical Poetry and Beyond // READING IN PARALLEL - A Double Reading by Design : Brueghel, Auden, and Williams Bonnefoy, and Cher / Collecting and Containing : Joseph Cornell and Mallarme / Re-Presentation as Recall, or the Vectors of Reading Tintoretto, Stevens, and Arakawa~Gins / Architecture and Conversation : Derrida, Bernard Tschumi, and Peter Eisenmen //SHOWING, TELLING, AND RELATING - Moral Passion and the Poetics of Stress / Narrative Voice and Second Reading : Relation and Response. ****************************************** TITLE : The Art of Interference : Stressed Readings in Verbal & Visual Texts / AUTHOR : Mary Ann Caws / IMPRINT : Princeton University Press / PLACE : Princeton, New Jersey / DATE : (1989) / EDITION : First Edition / STATUS : OP - Out of Print / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Contains numerous illustrations; has an introduction, notes (bibliographical and otherwise), and an index; xii + 329 pages; approx. 6" x 9"; pictorial wraps, glued. Text is printed on calendered paper (Semi-glossy) ***************************************** CONDITION - VERY GOOD - This is a previously owned book that displays modest signs of handling, but which remains clean and presentable, the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR -- No creasing to spine; spine and covers display mild surface rub; cover edges display modest wear. Seller Inventory # 1916
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