Published to accompany the major retrospective exhibition on Hung Liu, Summoning Ghosts is a comprehensive look at the work of this extraordinary Chinese-American artist. A pioneer in Chinese contemporary art before the Chinese avant-garde came into being, Lui’s life spanned two centuries and bridged two totally different economic situations. The wide-ranging essays in this book, which features 140 color illustrations, reflect on how Hung Liu’s evocative art is inextricably bound to her equally rich and complex life. While considering the artist’s primary work as a painter, the contributors also celebrate her murals, permanent and temporary installations, photography, and video.

Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu

Arts & Photography

Hung, Wu

Li, Yiyun

Berkson, Bill

de Guzman, René

Hanor, Stephanie

Smith, Karen

History & Criticism

University of California Press

Blue is the hero: Poems, 1960-1975

distributed by Serendipity Books Distribution

Blue Is the Hero

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

L Pubns

Enigma Variations

Poetry

Big Sky

Start over (Desert Island Chapbook Series)

Tombouctou Books

Poetry. Drama. Fiction. This book contains rare unpublished and out of print poems, a play, and an unfinished 'novel', all written in collaboration in the early 1960's. HYMNS comprises the full run of poetry and prose the two poets wrote in collaboration between 1960 and 1964. Two-thirds of these have never before appeared in book form. Berkson's and O'Hara's "hymns," inspired by the crooked steeple of the Church of St. Bridget on New York's Lower East Side, address themes of love, protestation, travel and more. (The final two are songs in praise of the New York School master painters, Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston.) The other writings include further collaborative poems; a lengthy epistolary fiction involving two long-lost brothers, Angelicus and Fidelio Fobb; Marcia, an Unfinished Novel (with Patsy Southgate), a play written on a jetliner over the Atlantic, and dizzying notes on the New York City Ballet and the French 'cubist' poet Pierre Reverdy.

Hymns of St. Bridget and Other Writings

Clark, Amy L.

Owl Press

Poetry. Bill Berkson has worked as a poet, critic, editor and publisher, teacher, and curator for over half a century. Steve Evans has described his recent poetry as that of "a serene master of the syntactical sleight and transformer of the mundane into the marvelous." A selection of Berkson's criticism, THE SWEET SINGER OF MODERNISM & OTHER ART WRITINGS, was published in 2004; his epistolary collaboration with Bernadette Mayer, WHAT'S YOUR IDEA OF A GOOD TIME? in 2006; and SUDDEN ADDRESS: SELECTED LECTURES 1981-2006 in 2007. He lives in New York and San Francisco and has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1984. He was Distinguished Paul Mellon Lecturer for 2006 at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently

Cultural Writing. Essays on art. THE SWEET SINGER OF MODERNISM spans nearly twenty years of poet, critic, and professor Bill Berkson's career as an art writer. The essays in this volume include "Thiebaud's Vanities," "Invocations of the Surge Protector," "Hung Liu, Action Painter," "What the Ground Looks Like" and many more. "Bill Berkson's THE SWEET SINGER OF MODERNISM is an indispensable text for anyone interested in late-twentieth-century culture. As a poet and critic of these times, as a witness and intimate participant, Berkson writes out of his own taste and experience, but never about it. His devotion to the seriousness and importance of his subjects is the very essence of modesty and felicity. As a consequence, his most casual opinion bears the weight of thoughtful moral authority. This is a wonderful book"--Dave Hickey.

The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings 1985-2003

Qua Books

Theatrical Realism: The Art of Inez Storer: de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, September 27-December 7, 2003

Kimball, Cathy

Pappas, Andrea

Storer, Inez

Kienzle, Karen

De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University

Cultural Writing. Poetry. Art. Essays. Ron Padgett writes: "Bill Berkson's writing is witty, musical, daily, and deep, underpinned by a bracing integrity and shot through with gorgeous abstraction and other brilliant hookups between eye, ear, mind, and heart." In this stunning collection of lectures spanning twenty-five years, Berkson addresses subjects as various as Walt Whitman, Frank O'Hara, Philip Guston, Dante, and the sublime.

Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006

Cuneiform Press

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