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The writer's brush : an exhibition of artwork by writers / Donald Friedman & John Wronoski ; introduction by Joseph McElroy.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York, NY : Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation, 2014Copyright date: ©2013Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 155 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781467575584 (hardcover cloth edition : alk. paper)
  • 1467575585 (hardcover cloth edition : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N8356.A9 F75 2014
Partial contents:
Includes works by: Walter Abish, Rafael Alberti, Roberta Allen, A.R. Ammons, John Ashbery, Enid Bagnold, Amiri Baraka, Djuna Barnes, Julian Beck, Andrei Bely, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge L. Borges, Breyten Breytenbach, Charles Bukowski, Gelett (Frank) Burgess, David Burliuk, Josef âapek, Tom Clark, Daniel Clowes, Jean Cocteau, Norma Cole, Douglas Coupland, Jim Crace, e.e. cummings, Henry Darger, Annie Dillard, J.P. Donleavy, Rikki Ducornet, Lawrence Durrell, Russell Edson, Mary Fabilli, Jules Feiffer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Henri Ford, Kahlil Gibran, Louise Gluck, Alasdair Gray, Allen Ginsberg, G©ơnter Grass, Brion Gysin, Herman Hesse, Jack Hirschman, Susan Howe, Georges Hugnet, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, Tama Janowitz, Charles Johnson, Donald Justice, Anna Kaven, Weldon Kees, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Maxine Hong Kingston, Bill Knott, Alfred Kubin, Jonathan Lethem, Mina Loy, Clarence Major, Robert Marshall, Henri Michaux, Henry Miller, Susan Minot, Walter Mosley, Hugh Nissenson, Clifford Odets, Kenneth Patchen, Sylvia Plath, Beatrix Potter, Annie Proulx, James Purdy, Kenneth Rexroth, Peter Sacks, William Saroyan, Maurice Sendak, Charles Simic, Patti Smith, William Jay Smith, Ralph Steadman and Hunter S. Thomson, Mark Strand, Igor Terentiev, James Thurber, Frederic Tuten, Josef V©Åchal, Janwillem Vandewetering, Kurt Vonnegut, Keith Waldrop, Derek Walcott, Rossanna Warren, Marjorie Welish, Denton Welsh, Richard Wilbur, Tennessee Williams, Stanis¿aw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy), William Butler Yeats, Unica Z©ơrn and more-.
Summary: "Donald Friedman's internationally acclaimed book, The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers, brought together in one collection the visual art of more than 200 of the world's great writers. To celebrate its publication, he organized a modest exhibition of writer-art which, after enlisting reare bookseller and ar dealer John Wronoski for help, was enlarged to inclues dozens of poets and writers somehow ommited from the book, and became a museum-scale show. The catalogue documents that historic exhibition. It opened at Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York. [...] 264 pieces of art by 139 poets and writers were displayed , making it the most extensive show of writer-art ever mounted." --From dust jacket.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery, in New York, New York from September 11 to October 27, 2007 and at the Pierre Menard Gallery, Brookline, Massachusetts, from December 5, 2007 to January 20, 2008.

"Donald Friedman's internationally acclaimed book, The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers, brought together in one collection the visual art of more than 200 of the world's great writers. To celebrate its publication, he organized a modest exhibition of writer-art which, after enlisting reare bookseller and ar dealer John Wronoski for help, was enlarged to inclues dozens of poets and writers somehow ommited from the book, and became a museum-scale show. The catalogue documents that historic exhibition. It opened at Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York. [...] 264 pieces of art by 139 poets and writers were displayed , making it the most extensive show of writer-art ever mounted." --From dust jacket.

Includes works by: Walter Abish, Rafael Alberti, Roberta Allen, A.R. Ammons, John Ashbery, Enid Bagnold, Amiri Baraka, Djuna Barnes, Julian Beck, Andrei Bely, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge L. Borges, Breyten Breytenbach, Charles Bukowski, Gelett (Frank) Burgess, David Burliuk, Josef âapek, Tom Clark, Daniel Clowes, Jean Cocteau, Norma Cole, Douglas Coupland, Jim Crace, e.e. cummings, Henry Darger, Annie Dillard, J.P. Donleavy, Rikki Ducornet, Lawrence Durrell, Russell Edson, Mary Fabilli, Jules Feiffer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Henri Ford, Kahlil Gibran, Louise Gluck, Alasdair Gray, Allen Ginsberg, G©ơnter Grass, Brion Gysin, Herman Hesse, Jack Hirschman, Susan Howe, Georges Hugnet, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, Tama Janowitz, Charles Johnson, Donald Justice, Anna Kaven, Weldon Kees, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Maxine Hong Kingston, Bill Knott, Alfred Kubin, Jonathan Lethem, Mina Loy, Clarence Major, Robert Marshall, Henri Michaux, Henry Miller, Susan Minot, Walter Mosley, Hugh Nissenson, Clifford Odets, Kenneth Patchen, Sylvia Plath, Beatrix Potter, Annie Proulx, James Purdy, Kenneth Rexroth, Peter Sacks, William Saroyan, Maurice Sendak, Charles Simic, Patti Smith, William Jay Smith, Ralph Steadman and Hunter S. Thomson, Mark Strand, Igor Terentiev, James Thurber, Frederic Tuten, Josef V©Åchal, Janwillem Vandewetering, Kurt Vonnegut, Keith Waldrop, Derek Walcott, Rossanna Warren, Marjorie Welish, Denton Welsh, Richard Wilbur, Tennessee Williams, Stanis¿aw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy), William Butler Yeats, Unica Z©ơrn and more-.

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