Manifestos

Huidobro, Vicente [Translated from the French By Gilbert Alter-Gilbert]: Manifest/Manifestos, Los Angeles Green Integer Books 1999
ISBN: 1-892295-08-3 Fine Book Design By Per Bregne; Typography By Guy Bennett; Cover Photograph By Hans Arp

1st printing of Green Integer paperback edition. 128pp. Glossy pictorial card covers. Green Integer 20. As New, unread condition. " One of the great poets of the 20th Century, Vicente Huidobro was born in Chile in 1893. As a youth he traveled to Paris where he lived for many years, befriending both French and Spanish poets such a Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Juan Larrea and Jorge Luis Borges. His manifestos, which crystallized his poetics of Creationism, were published in French in 1925, the year in which he returned to Chile to become the editor of a newspaper. During this period he ran for the presidency of Chile, but was defeated, after which he returned to Paris, where he wrote novels and, in 1931, the poetic work 'Altazor'. 'Manifestos Manifest' contains autobiographical reassessments of his writing, such as "Manifestos Manifest" and "Creationism", more typically manifesto-like statements such as "Futurism and Machinism" and "Manifestos Mayhaps," and comically inspired poetic prose pieces such as "The Poetry of the Poet." Through all these one cannot but hear the voice of this great poet, declaiming, exploring, proselytizing, remembering, and discovering." Edited by Per Bregne, Green Integer publishes a wide variety of works by leading artists, critics and historians. Some titles are new works by contemporary artists, others are important but overlooked works by some of history's greatest writers, and yet others, by great writers both living and long ago passed, represent significant international works which have never before been published in English. The smaller format of most of the books (6" x 4.25") make these important works highly portable for those who don't want to sacrifice their love of literature and learning for lack of a structured space and time for reading. Works published to date include critical essays, interviews, poems, plays, fragments of suppressed writings, radio dialogs, journals, philosophical essays, short fiction, speeches and novels. Green Integer is in many ways to avant-garde writing the New Directions of the 21st Century. First Edition Paperback 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall

[SW: Manifesto Literary Essays Chliean Literature]

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(Kirby, Michael; editor). THE DRAMA REVIEW. Volume 19, Number 4 (T-68) December 1975. New York: School of the Arts, New York University, 1975.

- Large octavo [10 inches high by 7 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial black, white & maroon wraps. The wraps are very lightly bumped, foxed & soiled with a stain to the front wrap. 123 & [3] pages plus ads. Black-and-white illustrations. The page edges are slightly darkened & there is minor soiling to 1 page. Very good. <p>Among the contents of this issue are sections on New Performance with articles on The Wooster Group's "Sakonnet Point", Yoshi and Company, The Pip Simmons Group, Eugenio Barba, Jerzy Grotowski and others; and sections on contemporary and historical manifestos with writings by Charles Ludlam, Richard Foreman, Michael Kirby, Shuji Terayama, Yuri Annenkov and Sergei Radlov.

[SW: THEATRE; THEATER; ALTERNATIVE THEATRE; EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE; AVANTGARDE THEATRE; PERIODICAL; THE DRAMA REVIEW; MICHAEL KIRBY; NEW PERFORMANCE; MANIFESTOS; HISTORICAL MANIFESTOS; WOOSTER GROUP; YOSHI AND COMPANY; THE PIP SIMMONS GROUP; EUGENIO BARBA; JERZY GROTOWSKI; CHARLES LUDLAM; RICHARD FOREMAN; SHUJI TERAYAMA; YURI ANNENKOV; SERGEI RADLOV.]

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Debray, Regis: Media Manifestos. Verso, 1996. ISBN: 1859840876
Gebraucht, aber gut erhalten. - In this volume Regis Debray sums up over a decade of his research and writing on the evolution of systems of communication and the technologically transmitted interventions of the modern intelligentsia in France. Media Manifestos announces the battle-readiness of a new sub-discipline of the sciences humaines: "mediology." Scion of that semiology of the sixties linked with the names of Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco - and affiliated trans-Atlantically to the semiotics of C.S. Peirce and media analyses of Marshall McLuhan ("medium is message") - "mediology" is in dialectical revolt against its parent thought-system. Determined not to lapse back into the uncritical empiricism and psychologism with which semiology broke, mediology is just as resolved to dispel the cult or illusion of the signifier as the be-all-and-end-all, slough off the scholasticism of the code, and recover the world - in all its mediatized materiality. In this enterprise its ally is the work of French historians of mentalites, of the hard and evolutionary sciences, and of the technologies of transmission (from stylus and clay to quill and parchment to press and paper to mouse and screen). Written with Debray's customary brio, Media Manifestos is no mere contribution to the vogue of "media studies." It remains steeped in the intellectual culture of Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault, indebted to the neolithic anthropology of Leroi-Gourhan and the study of science and technology of Serres and Latour, informed by the material histories of the Annales school, yet plugged in to the audiovisual culture of today's "videosphere" (as against the printerly "graphosphere" of yesterday, and the scriptorly "logosphere" of the day before that). Debray's work turns a neologism ("mediology") into a tool-kit with which to rethink the whole business of mediation from the city-state to the Internet. ISBN 1859840876, ISBN-13: 9781859840870

VIII; 179 S. Broschiert.

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HIGGINS, Dick and WILLIAMS, Emmett (editors): MANIFESTOS, New York A Great Bear Pamphlet (Something Else Press) 1966 ; 1. Ed.

First Edition Printed light yellow wraps. Contributors: Ay-O, Philip Corner, W.E.B. Dubois Clubs, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Robert Filliou, John Giorno, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Diter Roth, Jerome Rothenberg, Wolf Vostell, Robert Watts and Emmett Williams. An important collection of early Fluxus manifestos. Wraps Small puncture at rear affecting a few pages. Near Fine

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