Dear all,

Thought I'd post a version of a flyer I just got from Marjorie Welish--I'd
meant to include a quick mention of it in the back of the latest issue of
_The Gig_ (which has three of her poems) but didn't get the info in time,
so this is a small bit of recompense. I hope I'm not the only person here
who attended the Assembling Alternatives conference in 1996 & was glad to
have caught her very interesting talk on Cy Twombly & Mary Kelly, a version
of a chapter from the book.

Anyway, sorry for the ad break, but I'd imagine the book would interest
some listmembers. My info's only for Cambridge UP in the US; perhaps Chris
Emery or someone else would have info on the UK end of things.

all best --N

Nate & Jane Dorward
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109 Hounslow Ave., Willowdale, ON, M2N 2B1, Canada
ph: (416) 221 6865

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New from Cambridge University Press:

Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960
Marjorie Welish, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

_Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960_ considers the work of a
generation of "respondents" to the New York School, including Robert
Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, who reintroduced pictorialism
and verbal content in their paintings and assemblages. Their work,
Marjorie Welish argues, often alludes to the history of art and culture.
Also examined are the works of Minimal and Conceptual artists, particularly
Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt, who sought to make objective and theoretical
artifacts in response to the subjectivity that Abstract Expressionism had
promoted. By interpreting the work of these artists in light of
contemporary issues, Welish offers a fresh reevaluation of some of the
major trends and production of postwar American painting.

Contents:

Part I. Narrating the Hand
1. Pail for Ganymede: Rauschenberg's Sculpture * 2. Texas, Japan, Etc.:
Rauschenberg's Sense of Place * 3. The Art of Cy Twombly * 4. The Art of
Being Sparse, Porous, Scattered * 5. Narrating the Hand: Cy Twombly and
Mary Kelly * 6. When is a Door Not a Door? * 7. Frame of Mind: Interpreting
Jasper Johns * 8. Jasper's Patterns * 9. The Specter of Art Hype and the
Ghost of Yves Klein

Part II. Expressionism and Other Expressivites
10. Harold Rosenberg: Transforming the Earth * 11. The Art of Philip Guston
* 12. Gestural Aftermath * 13. Contesting Leisure: Alex Katz and Eric
Fischl

Part III. Ideas of Order
14. Indeterminacy Meets Encyclopedia: The Art of Kestutis Zapkus * 15. A
Greenberg Retrospective * 16. Abstractions: Barnett Newman and James
Turrell * 17. Literature of Silence (Nancy Haynes) * 18. Boulders from
Flatland: The Drawings of Jene Highstein * 19. Box, Aspects of (Donald
Judd) * 20. Quality through Quantity * 21. Maquettes and Models: Siah
Armajani and Hannes Bruner * 22. Ideas of Order (Sol LeWitt) * 23.
Contextualizing "The Open Work"

1999 / 336 pp. / 45 halftones
0-521-63301-X / Hardback / List: $60 (US)
0-521-63393-1 / Paperback / List: $24.95


[I note that the flyer I have has an offer (good for US or Canada) if you
buy a copy before 30 September: if you order direct from Cambridge UP, New
York branch, you get a discounted price of $48 hb / $19.96 pb (plus $4.00
shipping for one book, $1.00 for each additional copy; in Canada add 7%
GST); they take Visa/Mastercard. Address: Cambridge University Press, 40
W. 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211; fax: 212-691-3239.]



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