Spoken Text Alison Knowles 1st Edition Signed by Alison Knowles to Anne Kirker

Knowles, Alison

ISBN 10: 188051611X ISBN 13: 9781880516119

Published by Left Hand Books, 1993

Language: English

Condition: Used Hardcover

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Signed 1st Edition of this collection of Alison Knowles' radio plays - association copy from Knowles to Australian writer and art critic Anne Kirker ("For Anne Kirker Alison Knowles '94"); Bean Sequences, Fishes of the Philippine Seas, Paper Weather, North Water Song, Chant de l'Eau du Nord, Setsubun II, Frijoles Canyon; b&w illustrations; gray cloth boards with silver titling to spine, yellow endpapers; medium foxing to endpapers, prelims, and text block, scattered foxing throughout, o.w. Very Good; dustwrapper foxed and rubbed, o.w. Good. Dustwrapper. 133pp. 18.5 x 22cm. Very Good in Good dustwrapper.

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Title

Spoken Text Alison Knowles 1st Edition Signed by Alison Knowles to Anne Kirker

Publisher

Left Hand Books

Publication Date

1993

Language

English

ISBN 10

188051611X

ISBN 13

9781880516119

Binding

hardbound

Illustrator

b&w illustrations

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good in Good dustwrapper

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

Weight

1 kilogram

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Performing Arts

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SPOKEN TEXT is a book of performance scores where the spoken seems clearly to depend on differing degrees of seen. From crumple-xeroxing to stencil printing and intermixture of typographies and scripts, Knowles' found texts are presented here in the spatial formations which give rise to her unique brand of one-woman word show.

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On the level of readerly interpretation, Knowles clearly cares much about process. Her texts are gracefully open-ended, suggestive, and therefor demanding of a different kind of reading, one which elevates tone, balance, texture, and feel over the falsely reassuring finalities of linear exposition or bald paraphrase. Of course this is not to say that there is not an acute dialectical intelligence at work, only that it presents itself obliquely, playfully, offering a moral seriousness in the guise of the random event or seemingly willful absence of will--from review of "Spoken Text" by Harry Polkinhorn -- Taproot Reviews

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