American Painting : The Eighties, A Critical Interpretation

Barbara Rose, Steven Sloman, Carl Apfelschnitt, Dennis Ashbaugh, Frances Barth, Anna Bialobroda, Howard Buchwald, Louisa Chase, Elaine Lustig Cohen, William Conlon, Leonard Contino, Susan Crile, Rachelle Epstein, Robert Feero, Hermine Ford, Sam Gilliam, Ron Gorchov, Nancy Graves, Pierre Haubensak, Richard Hennessy, Stewart Hitch, Bill Jensen, Meredith Johnson, Lois Lane, Vered Lieb, Joanna Mayor, Robert Moskowitz, Elizabeth Murray, Georges Noël, Pete Omlor, Peter Pinchbeck, William Ridenhour, Susan Rothenberg, Mark Schlesinger, Gary Stephan, Susanna Tanger, Joan Thorne, Catharine Warren, Thornton Willis, Edward Youkilis

Critical review of art of the 1980s by Barbara Rose illustrated with portraits of the artists alongside an image of one of their works, and statements by the artists. Portrait photographs by Steven Sloman. ... [details]

On Metaphor

Sheldon Sacks, Ted Cohen, Paul de Man, Donald Davidson, Wayne C. Booth, Karsten Harries, David Tracy, Richard Shiff, Howard Gardner, Ellen Winner, Paul Ricoeur, W.V. Quine, Don R. Swanson, Nelson Goodman, Max Black

"On Metaphor, a collection of fourteen essays by eminent philosophers, literary critics, theologians, art historians, and psychologists, illustrates and explores a striking phenomenon in modern intellectual history : the transformation of metaphor from a specialized concern of rhetoricians and literary critics to a central concept in the study of human understanding. ... [details]

Sun & Moon : A Quarterly of Literature and Art

No. 1 (Winter 1976)

Charles Altieri, Daphne Athas, Carol Bergé, Carl Bode, Marvin Cohen, Fielding Dawson, Agnes Denes, John Ditsky, Slavko Janevski, Leonard Michaels, Marge Piercy, Gilbert Sorrentino, Lewis Turco, Anne Truitt, Louis Moriconi, Howard Fox, Douglas Messerli

First issue of "Sun & Moon" a quarterly of literature and art published in Winter, 1976 edited by Howard Fox and Douglas Messerli. Includes "Dialectic Triangulation: A Visual Philosophy," "Study of Distortions: Positions of Meaning," and "4,000 Years," by Agnes Denes with two fold-outs of the four drawings; an interview with Anne Truitt by Howard Fox; "Two Balls of Our Heaven," by Marvin Cohen; "Life Support System," by Carol Bergé; "Cancer 1775," by Dawson Fielding; "Three Selections from 'I Would Have Saved Them If I Could,'" by Leonard Michaels; poems by Gilbert Sorrentino, Slavko Janevski, Daphne Athas, Marge Piercy, Carl Bode, John Ditsky, and Lewis Turco; and "The Book of the World: Robert Duncan's Poetics of Presence," by Charles Altieri. ... [details]

Journal [LAICA Journal]

No. 4 (February 1975)

Rachel Rosenthal, Allan Kaprow, Clayton Eshleman, Lowell Darling, Paul Brach, Carol Berge, Joyce Shaw, Peter Clothier, Victor Lance Henderson, Guy De Cointet, Barbara Strasen, Robert K. Gullen, Martha Rosler, Emerson Woelffer, Walter Gabrielson, George Miller, Newton Harrison, Helen Harrison, Howard Cohen, Susan Mogul, Miriam Shapiro, Melvyn Freilicher, Arlene Raven, Van Schley, Billy Adler, Sylvia Salazar Simpson, Kathy Acker, Jerry McMillan, Joe Goode, John Clarke, Vaughan Rachel, Philip Orlando, Ruth Iskin, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Caroline Kent, Peter Gordon, Dewain Valentine, June Wayne, Miles Forst, Harold Cohen

Essays include a letter to the editor by Rachel Rosenthal; "Routine," by Allan Kaprow; "Untitled," by Clayton Eshleman; "Untitled," by Lowell Darling; "Untitled," by Paul Brach; "I'Most Go Down To The See Again," by Carol Berge; "Untitled," by Joyce Shaw; "Living on a Fault," by Peter Clothier; "Untitled," by Victor Lance Henderson; "Untitled," by Guy De Cointet; "Everyone's a Minority Group in California," by Barbara Strasen; "A Short Interview Between Dudley Finds and Lowell Darling in Hollywood," by Lowell Darling; "Conflict of Interest Law," by Robert K. ... [details]

Provincetown Review

No. 3

William V. Ward, Harry Bell, John Benson Brooks, Aaron Cohen, Rosalyn Drexler, Stanley Fisher, Ron Forbes, Paul Goodman, Walter Gutman, William Harmon, Howard Hart, LeRoi Jones, Seymour Krim, Peter La Farge, Philip Lamantia, Anne T. Newbro, Margaret Randall, Hubert Selby Jr., Harriet Sohmers, Helen De Mott, Ernesto, Sidney Gordon, Chaim Gross, Budd Hopkins, Irving Marantz, Fred McDarrah, Umberto Romano, Clifford Smith, Jack Smith, Richard O. Tyler, Balys Jacikevicius

Third issue of the Provincetown Review edited by William V. Ward. Author contributions by Harry Bell, John Benson Brooks, Aaron Cohen, Rosalyn Drexler, Stanley Fisher, Ron Forbes, Paul Goodman, Walter Gutman, William Harmon, Howard Hart, LeRoi Jones, Seymour Krim, Peter La Farge, Philip Lamantia, Anne T. ... [details]

The Beat Scene

Fred McDarrah, Elias Wilentz, Paul Blackburn, Ray Bremser, Marvin Cohen, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Richard Davidson, Diane DiPrima, Barbara Ellen, Kenward Elmslie, Bruce Fearing, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Fles, David Galler, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Goodman, James Grady, Robert Hanlon, Howard Hart, Richard Higgins, Lenore Jaffee, Ted Joans, LeRoi Jones, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Koch, Seymour Krim, Tuli Kupferberg, Philip Lamantia, Martin Last, Joseph LeSueur, Michael McClure, Jack Micheline, William Morris, Brigid Murnaghan, E.A. Navaretta, Robert Nichols, Frank O'Hara, Peter Orlovsky, Dan Propper, Hugh Romney, Albert Saijo, Marc D. Schleifer, Sally Stern, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen, Jonathan Williams

Publication of the work of writers on the "beat scene." With photographs by Fred McDarrah. Edited and with an introduction by Elias Wilentz. With contributions by Paul Blackburn, Ray Bremser, Marvin Cohen, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Richard Davidson, Diane DiPrima, Barbara Ellen, Kenward Elmslie, Bruce Fearing, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Fles, David Galler, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Goodman, James Grady, Robert Hanlon, Howard Hart, Richard Higgins, Lenore Jaffee, Ted Joans, LeRoi Jones, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Koch, Seymour Krim, Tuli Kupferberg, Philip Lamantia, Martin Last, Joseph LeSueur, Michael McClure, Jack Micheline, William Morris, Brigid Murnaghan, E. ... [details]