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Fire Season: Selected Essays 19842021
Seven Stories Press
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One of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche. The Guardian The novelist, cultural critic, and indie icon serves up sometimes bitchy, always generous, erudite, and joyful assessments from the last thirty-five years of cutting edge film, art, and literature. Whether hes describing Tracy Emin or Warhol, the films of Barbet Schroeder (Schroeder is well aware that life is not a narrative; that we impose form on the movements of chance, contingency, and impulse....) or the installations of Barbara Kruger (Kruger compresses the telling exchanges of lived experience that betray how skewed our lives are
), Indiana is never just describing. His writing is refreshing, erudite, joyful. Indiana champions shining examples of literary and artistic merit regardless of whether the individual artist or writer is famous; asserts a standard of care and tradition that has nothing to do with the ivory tower establishment; is unafraid to deliver the coup de grâce when someone needs to say the emperor has no clothes; speaks in the same breathin the same discerning, insolent, eloquent wayabout high art and pop culture. Few writers could get away with saying the things Gary Indiana does. And when the writing is this good, its also political, plus its a riot of fun on the page. Here is Gary Indiana on Euro Disney resort park in Marne-la-Valée outside of Paris: John Berger compares the art of Disney to that of Francis Bacon. He says that the same essential horror lurks in both, and that it springs from the viewers imagining: There is nothing else. Even as a child, I understood how unbearable it would be to be trapped inside a cartoon frame. "Since 1987, Indiana has published novels, nonfiction, plays, short stories all with an unmistakable, sardonic voice embedded in the text
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- | Author: Gary Indiana
- | Publisher: Seven Stories Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 19, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 368 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1644211629
- | ISBN-13: 9781644211625
- Author:
- Gary Indiana
- Publisher:
- Seven Stories Press
- Publication Date:
- Apr 19, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 368 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1644211629
- ISBN-13:
- 9781644211625