Main entry:

Blaisdell, Gus.

Title & Author:

Gus Blaisdell collected / selected and edited by William Peterson ; coedited by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey.

Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2012.

Description:

xxxiii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-382).
Foreword / Stanley Cavell -- Editor's preface / William Peterson -- Introduction: On "slipping across": reading, friendship, otherness / David B. Morris -- Gus Blaisdell on photographs. Absorbing inventories: Thomas Barrow's Libraries series ; Afterworld: the photographs of Joel-Peter Witkin ; Bldgs: photographs by Lewis Baltz ; Space begins because we look away from where we are: Lewis Baltz's Candlestick point ; Buried silk exhumed: the Lewis Baltz retrospective, rule without exception ; From "Obscenity in thy mother's milk": John Gossage's Hey fuckface! portfolio ; Thirteen ways of NOT looking at a Gossage photograph -- On movies. Passion misfits us all: Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas ; Mr. Death's Blue-eyed boy: Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal jacket ; Still moving ; Highlighting Hitchcock's Vertigo with magic marker -- On painting. Frank Stella's The whiteness of the whale ; Passion's pine breeze: the paintings of Terry Conway ; On In: outside: Guy Williams, selected works 1976-1982 ; Original face: Allan Graham's moon 2 ; Poem: "Omoide no tsukimi" -- On reading and writing. Gloss annexed ; Vatic writing: Evan S. Connell's Notes from a bottle ... ; Tell it like it is: the experimental traditionalists ; Rebus ; What was called "A Thought echoed in sight": Yvor Winters' Centenary ; Poem: "Occasional loquats" ; For Robert Creeley on his 70th birthday ; A nobler seduction: on Plato's Phaedrus at The Greenwood Press ; Slipping across -- Fiction. Introduction: Radical philosophical reclamation & wrecking, project: TLP Hotel ; Radical philosophical reclamation & wrecking, part 1 ; Radical philosophical reclamation & wrecking, part 2 ; Radical philosophical reclamation & wrecking, part 3 ; Radical philosophical reclamation & wrecking, part 4 -- Shorts and excerpts from correspondence. Self, embodied: correspondence with Nicholas Brownrigg ; On objecthood and art: letter to Marcy Goodwin ; On art criticism and Gus's writing method: letter to Geoffrey Young ; On writing and its discontents: letters to Geoffrey Young ; A vigorous lucidity: an autobiographical note on book editing and design ; Autobiographical note: letter to Lee F. Gerlach ; Working through it: letters to Ross Feld ; A postscript to "working through it": letter from Ross Feld -- Envoi / Ira Jaffe -- A chronology / excavated by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey.
English.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This long-awaited collection of Blaisdell's critical writings includes essays on literature, art, and film, along with moving tributes by some of the distinguished writers who numbered Blaisdell among their friends.

ISBN:

9780826342409 (cloth ; alk. paper)
082634240X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780826342423 (electronic)
0826342426 (electronic)

Subject:

Blaisdell, Gus
American fiction History and criticism.
Roman américain Histoire et critique.
American fiction.
Essay

Form/genre:

Writings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Peterson, William, 1945-
Ivey, Nicole Blaisdell.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285338
Call No.: BIB 224761
Status: Available