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04080aam a2200421 i 4500 001 2DA821CC86E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210317010020 008 190621t20202020maua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019026072 020 $a 0262043718 020 $a 9780262043717 035 $a (OCoLC)1105734721 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCQ $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d PUL $d GZM $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a N72.L36 $b S73 2020 082 00 $a 700 $2 23 100 1 $a Stark, Trevor, $e author. 240 10 $a Total expansion of the letter (M.I.T. Press) 245 10 $a Total expansion of the letter : $b Avant-Garde art and language after MallarmeÌ / $c Trevor Stark. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The MIT Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xiv, 420 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "The avant-garde owed much of its fascination and doubts about language to the poet SteÌphane MallarmeÌ (1842-1898) and his utopian call for a "total expansion of the letter." While MallarmeÌ aspired to remake language itself for a secular and democratic future, his poetry undermined the capacity of words to hold stable meaning in the present. The avant-gardes obsessed over his enigmatic poem, A Throw of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance (1897), in which words exploded across the pages of the book in intertwining visual patterns that opened almost infinite possibilities for reading. Most significantly, MallarmeÌ's poetry and prose, Stark demonstrates, developed a radical philosophy of language that confronted the status of aesthetics under capitalism, the intertwinement of the arts, the temporality of reception, and the centrality of chance in both the word and the world. Total Expansion of the Letter tells the story of MallarmeÌ's gamble and its role in shaping the invention of avant-garde art. Toward this end, Stark crosses the borders between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; between art, poetry, dance, and music; and between art history, philosophy, and political economy. From foundational modernist artworks to forgotten fragments, this book grapples with topics including Picasso's nearly abstract works of 1910, which promised to unite painting and writing at the brink of illegibility; the "hope of an anonymous art" that the cubists pursued in newspaper collages and industrial colors; the collaborative invention of cacophonic "simultaneous poems" in Zurich Dada during the First World War; and Duchamp's artistic experimentations with chance, as they propelled him into the casino and the financial markets. Each of these cases, Total Expansion of the Letter establishes, turned on the avant-garde's transformative encounter with the vertiginous premise of MallarmeÌ's poetics: that the very medium of human communication and community, language, is perpetually in flux and haunted by emptiness"-- $c Provided by publisher. 500 $a "An October book" 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : In the interregnum : MallarmeÌ and the avant-gardes -- The muted object : structure and writing in cubism -- Anonymous art : impersonal language and industrial color -- Simultaneity and totality : from MallarmeÌ's Livre to the dada score -- Duchamp's idle chance : finance, gambling, and the right to laziness -- Conclusion : Every revolution is a throw of the dice. 600 10 $a MallarmeÌ, SteÌphane, $d 1842-1898 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a MallarmeÌ, SteÌphane, $d 1842-1898. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00034378 650 0 $a Art $x Language. 650 0 $a Chance in art. 650 0 $a Arts $x Experimental methods. 650 7 $a Art $x Language. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00815289 650 7 $a Arts $x Experimental methods. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00817748 650 7 $a Chance in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00852034 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317024704.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2DA821CC86E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search