Up Is Up, But So Is Down

Up Is Up, But So Is Down
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 513
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ISBN-10 : 9780814783580
ISBN-13 : 0814783589
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Up Is Up, But So Is Down by : Brandon Stosuy

Among The Village Voices 25 Favorite Books of 2006 Winner of the 2007 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Trade Illustrated Book Design category. Sometime after Andy Warhol’s heyday but before Soho became a tourist trap, a group of poets, punk rockers, guerilla journalists, graffiti artists, writers, and activists transformed lower Manhattan into an artistic scene so diverse it became known simply as “Downtown.“ Willfully unpolished and subversively intelligent, figures such as Spalding Gray, Kathy Acker, Richard Hell, David Wojnarowicz, Lynne Tillman, Miguel Piñero, and Eric Bogosian broke free from mainstream publishing to produce a flood of fiction, poetry, experimental theater, art, and music that breathed the life of the street. The first book to capture the spontaneity of the Downtown literary scene, Up Is Up, But So Is Down collects more than 125 images and over 80 texts that encompass the most vital work produced between 1974 and 1992. Reflecting the unconventional genres that marked this period, the book includes flyers, zines, newsprint weeklies, book covers, and photographs of people and the city, many of them here made available to readers outside the scene for the first time. The book's striking and quirky design—complete with 2-color interior—brings each of these unique documents and images to life. Brandon Stosuy arranges this hugely varied material chronologically to illustrate the dynamic views at play. He takes us from poetry readings in Alphabet City to happenings at Darinka, a Lower East Side apartment and performance space, to the St. Mark's Bookshop, unofficial crossroads of the counterculture, where home-printed copies of the latest zines were sold in Ziploc bags. Often attacking the bourgeois irony epitomized by the New Yorker’s short fiction, Downtown writers played ebulliently with form and content, sex and language, producing work that depicted the underbelly of real life. With an afterword by Downtown icons Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles, Up Is Up, But So Is Down gathers almost twenty years of New York City’s smartest and most explosive—as well as hard to find—writing, providing an indispensable archive of one of the most exciting artistic scenes in U.S. history.

Tapping Out

Tapping Out
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Publisher : TriQuarterly Books
Total Pages : 96
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ISBN-10 : 0810142090
ISBN-13 : 9780810142091
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Tapping Out by : Nandi Comer

Lucha libre is the backdrop to Nandi Comer's poetry collection, which strips the masks we wear to examine violence, trauma and identity.

Tugboats of New York

Tugboats of New York
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9780814757086
ISBN-13 : 0814757081
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Tugboats of New York by : George Matteson

Museum, brings his intimate knowledge of the boats, their work, surroundings, and crew to his account. The volume is oversize: 12x9". Annotation 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

MAVO

MAVO
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 0520223381
ISBN-13 : 9780520223387
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis MAVO by : Gennifer Weisenfeld

Mavo were aJapanese group of artists active in Tokyo from 1923-1925.

In the Classic Mode

In the Classic Mode
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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 0874131189
ISBN-13 : 9780874131185
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis In the Classic Mode by : Donald Elwin Stanford

In this study Dr. Stanford surveys and evaluates the major achievements of Robert Bridges (1844-1930), an important poet, dramatist, scholar, and man of letters whose work has been unjustifiably neglected in recent years. Making use of Bridge's letters, Dr. Stanford has written a volume of criticism that reflects both the poet and the man.

A Century in Books

A Century in Books
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 9780691238173
ISBN-13 : 0691238170
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis A Century in Books by : Princeton University Press Staff

It all began atop a drugstore in Princeton, New Jersey, in November 1905. From its modest beginnings, Princeton University Press was to become one of the world's most important scholarly publishers, embracing a wealth of disciplines that have enriched our cultural, academic, and scientific landscape. Both as a tribute to our authors and to celebrate our centenary, Princeton University Press here presents A Century in Books. This beautifully designed volume highlights 100 of the nearly 8,000 books we have published. Necessarily winnowed from a much larger list, these books best typify what has been most lasting, most defining, and most distinctive about our publishing history--from Einstein's The Meaning of Relativity (1922) to the numerous mathematical and other works that marked the Press's watershed decade of the 1940s, including von Neumann and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior; from milestones of literary criticism by Erich Auerbach and Northop Frye to George Kennan's Pulitzer Prize-winning book on Soviet-American relations; from Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 to more recent landmarks such as L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, and Alberto Piazza's The History and Geography of Human Genes and Robert Shiller's Irrational Exuberance. In addition to succinct descriptions of the 100 titles and a short introduction on the history of the Press, the book features five essays by prominent scholars and writers: Michael Wood discusses the impact on Princeton University Press of intellectuals who fled Nazi Germany and authored many influential books. Anthony Grafton recounts our rich publishing tradition in history, politics, and culture. Sylvia Nasar traces our evolution into a leading voice in economics publishing. Daniel Kevles reflects on Einstein, a figure of special importance to Princeton. And Lord Robert May writes on our long-standing tradition of publishing in mathematics and science. A Century in Books is more than a celebration of 100 years of publishing at Princeton University Press--it is a treasure trove of 100 years of books that have added to the richness of twentieth-century intellectual life.

Electronic Literature

Electronic Literature
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Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015073934195
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Electronic Literature by : N. Katherine Hayles

Develops a theoretical framework for understanding how electronic literature both draws on the print tradition and requires reading and interpretive strategies. Grounding her approach in the evolutionary dynamic between humans and technology, the author argues that neither the body nor the machine should be given absolute theoretical priority.

New Serial Titles

New Serial Titles
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 992
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D01878315S
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Rating : 4/5 (5S Downloads)

Synopsis New Serial Titles by :

A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Policy Documents and Reports

Policy Documents and Reports
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 431
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ISBN-10 : 9781421416373
ISBN-13 : 1421416379
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Policy Documents and Reports by : AAUP

The essential guide to the AAUP's best practices and policies for higher education, now in its centennial edition. For the past century, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has developed standards for sound academic practice while working for the acceptance of these standards by the higher education community. The Association has long been viewed as the authoritative voice of the academic profession in this regard. The AAUP's Policy Documents and Reports (widely known as the Redbook because of the color of its cover) presents in convenient format a wide range of policies, in some instances formulated in cooperation with other educational organizations. The current edition, the eleventh, includes basic statements on academic freedom, tenure, and due process; academic governance; professional ethics; research and teaching; online and distance education; intellectual property; discrimination; collective bargaining; accreditation; and students' rights and freedoms. The new edition has been thoroughly updated and reorganized thematically. Brief historical introductions have been added to each section, along with an introductory essay on incorporating AAUP principles into faculty handbooks. Among the eighteen new reports included in this edition are statements on academic freedom and outside speakers, campus sexual assault, the inclusion of faculty on contingent appointments in academic governance, and salary-setting practices that unfairly disadvantage women faculty.