Book Description
The illustrated history of a celebrated poet's lifelong relationship with artists. Through essays, chronological narratives, and interviews with the participants, this book explores the intersection of contemporary poetry and contemporary art in the U.S. The accompanying CD-ROM makes it possible for readers to turn the pages of the books and portfolios with a mouse click. In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations accompanies a traveling exhibition of the same name, organized by the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University.


Excerpted from In Company : Robert Creeley's Collaborations by Amy Cappellazzo, Elizabeth Licata. Copyright © 1999. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
"When he [Creeley] sent me Mabel, I didn't have idea about what to do but I thought it was as good a chance to do what I wanted to do in etching as anything else. And Creeley embraced it-this is a big point about Bob-because he embraces everything. If it's you, he embraces it."--excerpt from interview with Jim Dine "That Creeley has been able to focus so closely and openly on one of humankind's deepest impulses. the desire for intimacy, without ever becoming overtly personal or anecdotal, is both a distinctive and distinguishing feature of his writing. ...His refusal to escape the empirical self, to return to it again and again, as he does in both his collaborations with [Georg] Baselitz] and his many projects with [Francesco] Clemente, places him squarely in a tradition that includes Jasper Johns. ...For Creeley, collaboration has become a way for him to both designate and discover the particulars inherent to time and space. The point, as his recent book, Life and Death (New York: New Directions, 1998) makes clear, is to keep one's eyes open, to be attentive to reality, and the self amidst it, for as long as humanly possible."--excerpt from Jon Yau's essay: "Active Participant: Robert Creeley and the Visual Arts"

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Celebrating poet Robert Creeley's pathbreaking role as an artistic collaborator, this illustrated volume adds substantially to the documented history of contemporary multidisciplinary art. For more than forty years, Creeley has worked on collaborative projects with some of the best-known artists of our time, including Georg Baselitz, Francesco Clemente, Jim Dine, R. B. Kitaj, Marisol, and Susan Rothenberg. ###In Company# explores this history with essays, interviews, archival photographs, and images of the books and portfolios created, from ###Numbers# (1968) with Robert Indiana to ###Edges# (1997) with Alex Katz. An accompanying CD-ROM features interactive presentations of the projects.

FROM THE CRITICS

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