Today BURNAWAY welcomes M. Kitchell for this month’s Authors on Art, a series of creative responses by poets, novelists, and experimental writers curated by Blake Butler. A. I’ve never seen any of Gregor Schneider’s work “in the flesh,” so to speak. I’ve never walked through one of his installations, I’ve never been able to physically [...]
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06/10/11 Authors on Art: Camille Rose Garcia
Today BURNAWAY welcomes Johannes Göransson for this month’s Authors on Art, a series of creative responses by poets, novelists, and experimental writers curated by Blake Butler. Camille Rose Garcia’s art functions as fantastic illustrations to an apocalyptic environmental allegory or fairytale. When talking about her art, Garcia often emphasizes this quality, talking about the narrative [...]
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05/13/11 Authors on Art: Kurt Schwitters’s expanding house
Today BURNAWAY welcomes Megan Martin for this month’s Authors on Art, a series of creative responses by poets, novelists, and experimental writers curated by Blake Butler. When allied bombs destroyed Kurt Schwitters’s home and studio in Hanover Germany in 1937, he and his family (wife, son, parents, several guinea pigs) had been living inside a [...]
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04/08/11 Authors on Art: Fear and Influence in Martijn Hendriks
As a change of pace, Blake Butler writes this month’s column in his own words. Authors on Art is a series of creative responses to works of visual art by poets, novelists, and experimental writers. There is nothing more terrifying than being terrified and not knowing what you are terrified of. The most voracious threat [...]
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03/11/11 Authors on Art: Finding William Daniels in St. Petersburg
Today BURNAWAY is pleased to present a creative piece on art and poetry by Jamie Iredell for our monthly column, Authors on Art, curated by Blake Butler. On the flight from New York to Moscow I crashed for only three out of the nine-hour duration, but beforehand finished a bottle and a half of Absolute. [...]
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02/11/11 Authors on Art: Vija Celmins, Human Camera
Today BURNAWAY is pleased to present a creative piece on art and poetry by Evan Lavender-Smith for our monthly column, Authors on Art, curated by Blake Butler. “There was never any symbolism or any real idea. I just went back to looking, which I guess is a theme that runs through my work. Looking at [...]
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01/14/11 Authors on Art: Desirée Holman upsets the distinction between real and play
Today BURNAWAY is pleased to present a creative piece on art and poetry by Alissa Nutting for our monthly column, Authors on Art, curated by Blake Butler. Desirée Holman is the high abbess of the domestic creepy. Hers is a world of fantasy, role play, and dress-up; except, rather than conceal or deceive, the costumes [...]
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12/13/10 Authors on Art: Navigating the Drawings of Lucas Soi
Today BURNAWAY is pleased to present a creative piece on art and poetry by Shane Jones for our monthly column, Authors on Art, curated by Blake Butler. I’ll admit that I’m a skank for artists who use color in interesting and brutal ways (Richard Colman and Matt Furie are brilliant rainbow-laced minds who come to [...]
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11/08/10 Authors on Art: Joan Miró, the Assassin of Painting
Today BURNAWAY is pleased to present a creative piece on art and poetry by Heather Christle for our monthly column, Authors on Art, curated by Blake Butler. 1. An artist seems always to know the materiality of her medium, but a poet sometimes forgets she is an artist.
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10/11/10 Authors on Art: The Photography of Yelena Yemchuk
Today we are pleased to introduce a new column titled Authors on Art by various writers curated by Blake Butler. This month we welcome guest author Ben Spivey. Giving a mannequin the characteristics of a breathing human with a beating heart wasn’t easy. I was first introduced to the photography of Yelena Yemchuk in 1998 [...]
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