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"William Anastasi's Pataphysical Society: Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp, and Cage"
Edited by Aaron Levy & Jean-Michel Rabaté | Published by Slought Books, Philadelphia
Paperback Edition, 5.5 x 8.5 in, 124pp, 50+ illustrations, $20.00
ISBN: 0-9714848-5-6 |
Book release scheduled for Philadelphia (Fall 2005)
New Release (April 2005)
This new publication, the third in our Contemporary Artist Series, engages work by conceptual artist William Anastasi in relation to literary and artistic predecessors and contemporaries including Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp, and Cage. This publication is edited by Aaron Levy and Jean-Michel Rabaté, with contributions by William Anastasi, Joseph Masheck, Thomas McEvilley, and Steve McCaffery, and an introduction by Osvaldo Romberg. In addition, nearly 40 manuscript pages from William Anastasi's manuscripts "me innerman monophone" and "du jarry," engaging Joyce and Duchamp via Jarry, are reproduced in the book, alongside 10 pages of reproductions of Anastasi's work from the 1960s. By showing concretely that many passages in Finnegans Wake contain buried allusions to Jarry's characters and vocabulary and personality, Anastasi is not simply annotating Joyce's masterpiece; he provides a new way of reading all avant-garde literature. If Jarry is shown to be somewhere in Joyce's texts, how can we be sure that he is not everywhere?
Published by Slought Books. More information on past lectures at Slought Foundation (with corresponding recordings) by contributors to this volume online at: http://slought.org/content/
"[T]he more I remedially review the contribution of William Anastasi to art and the general morale of art in his generation... the more fully I comprehend an uncommonly perspicacious neo-Duchampianism that now in a surprisingly Joycean way, with Jarry as provocateur to both, persists in sustaining the great game that is art." -- Joseph Masheck
"If it should happen that Bill’s hypothesis proves untestable, it will hang in the air as a living web of thought that waits tantalizingly for a resolution that never comes-a ghostly presence of the avant-garde of the twentieth century, a haunting memory that seems both ancient and somehow still alive in its appeal.." - Thomas McEvilley
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