Bad Writing
$54.20
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2019
Summary
Essays that forge a path to a truly radical “bad” modernism in art and literature.What, exactly, constitutes the “bad”? Can one consciously produce in the name of “badness,” or is badness a value judgment that comes after the fact, from an Other? How does one begin to assign aesthetic value to an object? If one is to accept the “bad” as “good,” or to find aesthetic value in badness, then when does the bad succeed and when does it fail? If, pace Beckett, we are to embrace failure as an inevita…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783956794100 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3956794109 |
| Author: | Travis Jeppesen |
| Publisher: | Sternberg Press |
| Imprint: | Sternberg Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 666g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 146mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Sternberg Press |
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…a total pleasure to read.—TANK Magazine—
Travis Jeppesen’s ‘willful defiance of the commodification of art criticism’ is not just necessary, it’s outrageous.
—Bruce Schawbsky, art critic for The Nation—[Jeppesen]’s the Weird Al Yankovic of art criticism, but gayer.
—Bruce Hainley, author of Under the Sign of [sic]: Sturtevant’s Volte-Face—About The Author
Travis Jeppesen
Travis Jeppesen (born 1979) is an American novelist, poet, artist, and art critic currently based in Berlin. He is the author of The Suiciders (Semiotext(e)), Poems I Wrote while Watching TV, See You Again in Pyongyang, and other books.
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