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Corpse and Mirror

Literature & Fiction

YAU, John

Poetry

Henry Holt & Company, Inc.

Corpse and mirror (The National poetry series)

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

If the "I" cannot be representative, what or who can it represent? In John Yau's new collection, Borrowed Love Poems, the reader encounters artists (Hiroshige and Eva Hesse), poets (Marina Tsvetayeva and Georg Trakl), actors (Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre), and memorable figures (a retired wrestler and a private eye named Genghis Chan). Each becomes a spectral, sonorous presence inhabiting the polymorphic body of the page, a shadow of a shadow lit from within. Yau's poems are dazzling explorations of the multiple, shifting sands of identity, of the fictional, fake, factual, and autobiographical selves that pass like ghosts through the empty space known as "I." Able to seamlessly merge a strict yet eccentric methodology with wild flights of the imagination, Yau moves into a rich, complex realm, where the flickering edges of consciousness-the dream state-become poetry.

Borrowed Love Poems (Poets, Penguin)

Penguin??Books

As the anagram of its title suggests, the poems, prose, lyrics, and memoir in John Yau’s new collection focus on an inescapable duality. It is the duality of living in both painted gardens and in the shadows of historic events that sweep one along. Yau explores the language of telling, of biography, auto and otherwise, of landscapes that are simultaneously imaginary and real, of ways to enter and leave "the kingdom of poetry." This is a book of displacements and unpredictable associations, of "last confessions" and "coming attractions," at once haunted and haunting.

Paradiso Diaspora (Poets, Penguin)

Since photography was first developed in the mid-nineteenth century, artists have been incorporating it in their work. Randy Hayes follows in that tradition, combining the stop-action immediacy of photos with the timeless commentary of painting to produce provocative, many-layered images. His unique method of "veiling" photographs with semitranslucent washes of paint puns the themes he illustrates. During the first fifteen years of his career, Hayes focused on individuals whose identity is defined by how they present their bodies - such people as transvestites, transsexuals, prostitutes, strippers, and boxers. For the last decade, he has shifted his interest to figures - usually women - who are veiled, turned away, or partially hidden by what they wear. In a sort of redefined cubism, the artist uses a series of snapshots to present a scene from all sides and perspectives. Multiple views and moments invite the viewer to participate in the drama of the painting. The viewer's examination of the painting's physical layers echoes the exploration of its layers of meaning. Randy Hayes: The World Reveiled features seventy-six full-color images that illustrate Hayes's exploration of the world unseen.

Randy Hayes: The World Reveiled

Arts & Photography

Hayes, Randy

Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.) Museum

History & Criticism

Oglethorpe University Museum

This volume presents 30 color reproductions of the work of Pat Steir, a painter who has investigated and redefined the different modes possible in painting. Her technique is to utilize limitation to focus attention on certain painting issues. In light of the marginal position women hold in the history of painting, she has deliberately changed her style, thus bringing together conceptualist thinking and different means of paint application. The book contains an extensive essay on her work, as well as an interview. Oversize: 9.25x11.5

Dazzling Water, Dazzling Light

Steir, Pat

Weidle, Barbara

Individual Artists

Pamela Auchincloss Gallery

The Passionate Spectator collects essays, reviews, and art criticism by John Yau, an internationally lauded poet, critic, and curator. In this wide-ranging collection, Yau explores the intersection of art and poetry, dissolving boundaries between the artistic traditions and reimagining what it means to see and to write. Whether he is interpreting the poetic use of titles in Jessica Stockholder’s paintings, reviewing the collaborative book project between American poet Robert Creeley and German artist Georg Baselitz, or considering the significance of Frank O’Hara’s decision to have his portrait drawn wearing nothing but army boots, Yau is consistently daring, original, and contemporary. Yau’s diverse critical sensibilities permeate The Passionate Spectator as he moves seamlessly between the visual and literary arts. Highlights of this collection include an essay on the poet as art critic, a study of the relationship between Kevin Young’s poetry and the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and an imaginative piece in which Yau speculates about what Jorge Luis Borges would have created had he been a visual artist. In the title essay, Yau lays out the duty of the spectator―a duty shared by viewer, reader, critic, and artist: “it is up to us to experience art, to engage and believe in its power.”.

The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry (Poets On Poetry)

University of Michigan Press

The Passionate Spectator collects essays, reviews, and art criticism by John Yau, an internationally lauded poet, critic, and curator. In this wide-ranging collection, Yau explores the intersection of art and poetry, dissolving boundaries between the artistic traditions and reimagining what it means to see and to write. Whether he is interpreting the poetic use of titles in Jessica Stockholder’s paintings, reviewing the collaborative book project between American poet Robert Creeley and German artist Georg Baselitz, or considering the significance of Frank O’Hara’s decision to have his portrait drawn wearing nothing but army boots, Yau is consistently daring, original, and contemporary. Yau’s diverse critical sensibilities permeate The Passionate Spectator as he moves seamlessly between the visual and literary arts. Highlights of this collection include an essay on the poet as art critic, a study of the relationship between Kevin Young’s poetry and the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and an imaginative piece in which Yau speculates about what Jorge Luis Borges would have created had he been a visual artist. In the title essay, Yau lays out the duty of the spectatora duty shared by viewer, reader, critic, and artist: it is up to us to experience art, to engage and believe in its power.”.

Shortly before his early death, Canadian artist Matthew Wong (1984-2019) emerged as a phenomenon. He started drawing and painting in 2011, at the age of 27, and within the space of just a few years had developed a highly personal style using intense colors to paint imaginative landscapes. Wong's expressively lyrical works were inspired by both traditional Chinese painting and Western art. He was especially influenced by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), not only in terms of his painting style and choice of motifs, but also in some aspects of his life. Both artists were self-taught, and both faced mental health issues. Wong saw his own life reflected in that of Van Gogh, and once said: "I see myself in him. The impossibility of belonging in this world." Published to accompany an exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Matthew Wong-Vincent van Gogh explores the artistic and personal connection between the two artists, bringing around forty-five paintings and drawings by Wong into dialogue with a group of Van Gogh masterpieces. Kenny Schachter, who knew Wong, contributes a personal introduction, which is followed by essays exploring the artists' biographical and artistic kinship.

Matthew Wong - Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a Last Resort

Shiff, Richard

Schachter, Kenny

van der Hoeven, Joost

Thames&Hudson

Over the past ten years, Iowa-born sculptor John Buck (born 1946), known for his woodblock prints, wall reliefs and three-dimensional freestanding works, has experimented with the addition of mechanical components to his wooden sculptures. This publication presents Buck’s kinetic sculptures.

John Buck

Wells, Ken

Tesner, Linda

Marquand Books

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Corpse and Mirror

Corpse and mirror (The National poetry series)

Borrowed Love Poems (Poets, Penguin)

Paradiso Diaspora (Poets, Penguin)

Randy Hayes: The World Reveiled

Dazzling Water, Dazzling Light

The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry (Poets On Poetry)

The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry (Poets On Poetry)

Matthew Wong - Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a Last Resort

John Buck