Book by David A. Ross, Lewis Hyde, Bill Viola, Kira Perov

Bill Viola: Installations and Videotapes (Paperback)

Arts & Photography

David A. Ross

Lewis Hyde

Bill Viola

Kira Perov

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Whitney Museum of American Art with Flammarion

Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

This collection can be read as an eclectic response to what it means to possess Shakespeare. It contains essays, poems, autobiographical reflections, and a musical composition. Some of the pieces were written specifically for this volume and directly address elements or ideas found in Shakespeare s plays; others make no direct mention of his work or influence, and in fact were originally written and published for very different reasons. Nonetheless, what these pieces have in common is that they were written in possession of Shakespeare. The contributors, by the very nature of who they are and what they have written and done, own, are owned by, and owe some debt to Shakespeare. The Catholic Worker Jeff Dietrich has fed the homeless and poor on Los Angeles Skid Row for more than forty years and written about his experiences doing so. He has stood on the heath with them, as the title of his essay suggests. The essayist, cultural critic, and poet Lewis Hyde has spent a lifetime thinking about what it means to be an artist. His interest in the influence of artists upon one another, of ideas that are as common as air, is the very premise of this book, which is that Shakespeare himself is common as air. Like Shakespeare, Lewis Hyde knows that the quality essential to all creative work first and foremost begins by borrowing. Arnal Kennedy, homeless for some twenty years, has been an active member of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker ever since he left the streets. He cares for the poor on a daily basis by serving meals and washing dishes ; he is also a poet. While his work is an expression of the deepest suffering and loss, his poetry also holds out the saving adage of Shakespeare s understanding of redemption. Logan Metz and Lincoln Mendell are collaborators, poet/musicians in the lyrical tradition of Shakespeare s Feste or Ariel. Logan Metz teaches Shakespeare and music to young children in underprivileged schools in Los Angeles. Wole Soyinka is a poet, essayist, a novelist, a satirist, a journalist, a critic, a writer of memoirs, a wordsmith (quite literally, a maker of words ), and occasionally a composer but first and foremost (perhaps), he is a playwright. And in this capacity he shares more than his initials with his predecessor, William Shakespeare. The poet Gail Wronsky has written many books of poetry, two of which nestle in Shakespeare. Like Shakespeare, she writes about doubles, herself and himself, Bottom and Vishnu, as the trading of dreams. Theresia de Vroom has been thinking about Shakespeare since the sixth grade, when she saw a performance of A Midsummer Night s Dream and Hamlet in the same week.

In Possession of Shakespeare: Writing into Nothing

Wole Soyinka

Jeff Dietrich

Theresia de Vroom

Arnal Kennedy

Gail Wronsky

Logan Metz

Lincoln Mendell

Marymount Institute Press, a Tsehai Publishing imprint

Primer For Forgetting, A

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The Gift

Philosophy

Canongate Books Ltd.

<p>""The Gift" actually deserves the hyperbolic praise that in most blurbs is so empty. It is the sort of book that you remember where you were and even what you were wearing when you first picked it up. The sort that you hector friends about until they read it too. This is not just formulaic blurbspeak; it is the truth. No one who is invested in any kind of art, in questions of what real art does and doesn't have to do with money, spirituality, ego, love, ugliness, sales, politics, morality, marketing, and whatever you call 'value', can read "The Gift" and remain unchanged." - David Foster Wallace.</p>

The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World

History & Criticism

"Trickster Makes This World" brings to life the playful and disruptive side of the human imagination as it is embodied in the trickster mythology. Most at home on the road or at the twilight edge of town, tricksters are consummate boundary-crossers, slipping through keyholes, breaching walls subverting defence systems. Always out to satisfy their inordinate appetites, lying, cheating and stealing, tricksters are a great bother to have around but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes.In this fascinating book, Lewis Hyde explores the old myths that state that the trickster made the world as it actually is. He argues that our world, with its complexity and ambiguity, its beauty and its dirt, was trickster's creation, and the work is not yet finished.

Trickster Makes This World Mischief, Myth, and Art

Trickster Makes This World

Bill Viola (b. 1951) is widely acknowledged as the leading video artist on the international scene. His video installations--total environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound--employ sophisticated state-of-the-art technologies and are distinguished by their precision and direct simplicity. Viola's single-channel videotapes have been distributed and broadcast around the world, while his writings have been published and anthologized for international readers.Since the early 1970s, Viola has used video to explore the phenomena of sense perception as an avenue to self-knowledge. Clearly at odds with the cynicism of his age, his works focus on universal human experiences--birth, death, the unfolding of consciousness--and have roots in Eastern and Western art as well as Sufism, Christian mysticism, and Zen Buddhism. Viola's achievement is that of an artist who began in a new field, unbounded by tradition and dogma, and who arrived, twenty-five years later, deeply enmeshed in a series of intersecting spiritual traditions, both ancient and contemporary.This catalogue has been published in conjunction with "Bill Viola," the first major survey of the artist's work and the largest exhibition ever devoted to an individual video artist, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and curated by David A. Ross and Peter Sellars.The book features a dynamic and visually rich selection of works from 1972 to 1996, in a presentation compiled by Kira Perov and Bill Viola, with written descriptions by the artist, and a conversation between Viola and poet/scholar Lewis Hyde on the spiritual roots and cultural traditions underlying Viola's art. There is also an overview of the artist's achievement by David A. Ross, Whitney Museum director, who has been involved with Viola's work since its beginning and, as the first museum curator of video art, has played a major role in the history and development of the field.An extensive catalogue of works, exhibition history, bibliography, and chronology is also included. 272 illustrations, 198 in full-color.

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