Richard Milazzo
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Richard Milazzo was the editor and co-publisher of Out of London Press in the 1970s. Among the books he edited were The Syntactic Revolution: Collected Writings of Abraham Lincoln Gillespie (New York, 1980) and the first English facsimile edition of Pontormo’s Diary (New York, 1982). In 1981, he co-edited La rosa disabitata 1960-1980 for Feltrinelli, one of the first anthologies to document the post-Gertrude Stein
‘Language’ writing movement in America, which included the writings of Vito Acconci
, Charles Bernstein
, John Cage
, Clark Coolidge
, Lyn Hejinian
, Frank Kuenstler, Jackson Mac Low
, Bob Perelman, Bern Porter and Jerome Rothenberg
, among others. Before he stopped writing poetry in 1982, his works appeared in Il Verri and Tam Tam, among other magazines. These early writings were recently collected into a book entitled, Alogon: Early Poems 1969-1981, published by Tokyo Publishing House (Tokyo, 2007).
, James Welling, Richard Prince
, Peter Nagy
, Not Vital, Mark Innerst, Allan McCollum
, Peter Halley
, Jonathan Lasker
, Haim Steinbach
, Jeff Koons
, Philip Taaffe
, Robert Gober
, Saint Clair Cemin
, Annette Lemieux, Sal Scarpitta, Meg Webster, Lawrence Carroll
, Vik Muniz
and Tyler Turkle
, among others. In the early 1980s, he co-published and co-edited Effects: Magazine for New Art Theory in the East Village, and from 1986 to 1988 he was the American co-editor of Kunstforum (Cologne). Among Milazzo's many publications from these years are Radical Consumption and the New Poverty (New Observations, 1987); Art at the End of the Social (The Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden, 1988); and Hyperframes: A Post-Appropriation Discourse in Art, the lectures Collins & Milazzo delivered as Senior Critics at Yale University in 1988 and 1989. The latter were originally published in 1989 and 1990 in two volumes in Paris, with Editions Antoine Candau, and became known as the “Green Books.” They were recently reissued in an Italian edition by Campanotto Editore in Udine, in 2005.
In the 1990s, he curated an exhibition space he founded, 11, rue Larrey at Sidney Janis Gallery, and co-founded and edits the publishing house, Edgewise Press. In 1993, after a hiatus of eleven years, he returned to writing poetry, with the volume Le Violon d’Ingres: Sunday Poems and Lineations 1993-1996. In 1996, he curated Realism After Seven A.M.: Realist Painting After Edward Hopper – An exhibition of 25 Artists in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of the Hopper House; and, in 1998, he organized an art auction and benefit exhibition to re-launch Barney Rossett’s Evergreen Review on line. He has curated, both in the United States and Europe, major one-person exhibitions of the works of Malcolm Morley
, Ross Bleckner, Sandro Chia
, Abraham David Christian
, Robert Longo
, Saint Clair Cemin
, Alessandro Twombly, David Salle
, Alex Katz
, Mark Innerst and William Anastasi
. He has written the major monographs, Saint Clair Cemin: Sculptor from Cruz Alta and The Paintings of Ross Bleckner.
Among his other recent books are Malcolm Morley; Streets of Gold; Caravaggio on the Beach: Essays on Art in the 1990s; Hotel of the Heart: Poems 1997-2001; Jonathan Lasker: Expressions Become Things; Along the Hudson: Poems (with drawings by Abraham David Christian); Il Facchino di Venezia (The Porter of Venice): Poems 2002-2003; Green Nights / Golgotha / Love’s Quarrel: Poems 2001-2003; Mute Sirens: Poems (with photographs by Carlo Benvenuto); Stone Dragon Bridge: Poems 2006-2007; An Earring Depending from the Moon: Poems 2006; Circus in the Fog: Poems 2005-2006; and The Fishmonger’s Door: Poems of Modena (with photographs by Carlo Benvenuto).
Recently, he delivered six lectures at the Instituto Universitario di Architetura di Venezia on the paintings of Philip Taaffe
. Most recently, he edited, with an introduction, Ross Bleckner's book, Examined Life: Writings 1972-2007, published by Edgewise Press, 2009. Forthcoming are two books of art criticism, According to What and Theory Sauvage, monographs on Peter Halley and Philip Taaffe, and a book of poetry, With Grass Ropes They Dragged the World to Her in Wooden Boats: Poems of Jordan, Syria and Egypt (with accompanying watercolors by Alessandro Twombly) (2008). Milazzo lives and works in New York City
.
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France.-Early life:...
‘Language’ writing movement in America, which included the writings of Vito Acconci
Vito Acconci
Vito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.-Education:...
, Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein is an American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets . In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American...
, John Cage
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
, Clark Coolidge
Clark Coolidge
Clark Coolidge is an American poet born in Providence, Rhode Island.Often associated with the Language School, his experience as a Jazz drummer and interest in a wide array of subjects--- including caves, geology, bebop, weather, Salvador Dalí, Jack Kerouac, and movies--- often finds...
, Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. She is often associated with the Language poets and is well known for her landmark work My Life , as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry .-Life:Hejinian was born in the San...
, Frank Kuenstler, Jackson Mac Low
Jackson Mac Low
Jackson Mac Low was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of John Cage, Earle...
, Bob Perelman, Bern Porter and Jerome Rothenberg
Jerome Rothenberg
Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known American poet, translator and anthologist who is noted for his work in ethnopoetics and poetry performance.-Early life and work:...
, among others. Before he stopped writing poetry in 1982, his works appeared in Il Verri and Tam Tam, among other magazines. These early writings were recently collected into a book entitled, Alogon: Early Poems 1969-1981, published by Tokyo Publishing House (Tokyo, 2007).
Life and work
Since 1982, Milazzo has worked internationally as a critic and curator in the art world. His exhibitions and critical writings with Collins & Milazzo brought to prominence a whole new generation of artists in the 1980s – artists such as Ross BlecknerRoss Bleckner
-Life and work:"'I always absolutely thought there was a difference between being a young artist and an important young artist,' said Mr. Bleckner, who grew up in Hewlett, L.I., graduated in 1971 from New York University and earned an M.F.A...
, James Welling, Richard Prince
Richard Prince
Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. Prince began appropriating photographs in 1975...
, Peter Nagy
Peter Nagy
Peter Nagy is a Czechoslovak-Slovak slalom canoer who competed from the early 1990s from the early 2000s. He won a bronze medal for Czechoslovakia in the K-1 team event at the 1991 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Tacen....
, Not Vital, Mark Innerst, Allan McCollum
Allan McCollum
Allan McCollum is a contemporary American artist who was born in Los Angeles, California in 1944, and now lives and works in New York City. He has spent over forty years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production, focusing most recently on...
, Peter Halley
Peter Halley
-Early Life and Career:Halley first came to prominence as a result of the geometric paintings rendered in intense day-glo colours that he produced in the early 1980s. His practice as an artist is usually associated with minimalism, neo-geo, and neo-conceptualism...
, Jonathan Lasker
Jonathan Lasker
Jonathan Lasker is an American artist.Lasker was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California....
, Haim Steinbach
Haim Steinbach
Haim Steinbach is an [American] artist, who lives in New York City. Many of his works consist of arrangements of mass produced objects or readymades.-Life and work:...
, Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces....
, Philip Taaffe
Philip Taaffe
Philip Taaffe is an American artistTaaffe was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and studied at the Cooper Union in New York, gaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1977....
, Robert Gober
Robert Gober
Robert Gober is an American sculptor. His work is often related to domestic and familiar objects such as sinks, doors, and legs.-Life and work:...
, Saint Clair Cemin
Saint Clair Cemin
Saint Clair Cemin is a sculptor.He studied at the École Nationale Superiore des Beaux Arts in Paris, France, in 1975, and moved to New York in 1978, to live and work. Saint Clair Cemin currently shows with the Brent Sikkema Gallery in New York City...
, Annette Lemieux, Sal Scarpitta, Meg Webster, Lawrence Carroll
Lawrence Carroll
Lawrence Carroll is an American painter born to George and Mary Carroll in Melbourne Australia. He moved to Santa Monica, California with his parents and older brother Ronald in 1958. In 1960 his family relocated to Newbury Park, a suburb located 45 minutes north of Los Angeles...
, Vik Muniz
Vik Muniz
Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz, known as Vik Muniz , is a visual artist living in New York City.-Early career:Muniz began his career as a sculptor in the late 1980s after relocating from Brazil to Chicago and later to New York. His early work grew out of a post-Fluxus aesthetic and often involved...
and Tyler Turkle
Tyler Turkle
-History:Tyler Turkle was born May 29, 1947 in Alliance, Ohio. He received his B.A. in History in 1970 from Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio and studied cinematography at Kent State University. From 1975 to 1987 he taught art, photography, video and filmmaking in the School of Visual Arts at...
, among others. In the early 1980s, he co-published and co-edited Effects: Magazine for New Art Theory in the East Village, and from 1986 to 1988 he was the American co-editor of Kunstforum (Cologne). Among Milazzo's many publications from these years are Radical Consumption and the New Poverty (New Observations, 1987); Art at the End of the Social (The Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden, 1988); and Hyperframes: A Post-Appropriation Discourse in Art, the lectures Collins & Milazzo delivered as Senior Critics at Yale University in 1988 and 1989. The latter were originally published in 1989 and 1990 in two volumes in Paris, with Editions Antoine Candau, and became known as the “Green Books.” They were recently reissued in an Italian edition by Campanotto Editore in Udine, in 2005.
In the 1990s, he curated an exhibition space he founded, 11, rue Larrey at Sidney Janis Gallery, and co-founded and edits the publishing house, Edgewise Press. In 1993, after a hiatus of eleven years, he returned to writing poetry, with the volume Le Violon d’Ingres: Sunday Poems and Lineations 1993-1996. In 1996, he curated Realism After Seven A.M.: Realist Painting After Edward Hopper – An exhibition of 25 Artists in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of the Hopper House; and, in 1998, he organized an art auction and benefit exhibition to re-launch Barney Rossett’s Evergreen Review on line. He has curated, both in the United States and Europe, major one-person exhibitions of the works of Malcolm Morley
Malcolm Morley
Malcolm Morley is an English artist now living in the United States. He is best known as a photorealist.-Early life:Morley was born in north London. He had a troubled childhood, and did not discover art until serving a three-year stint in Wormwood Scrubs prison...
, Ross Bleckner, Sandro Chia
Sandro Chia
Sandro Chia is an Italian painter and sculptor.A native of Florence, he was a key member of the Italian Transavanguardia movement, along with fellow countrymen Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Nicola De Maria, and Enzo Cucchi....
, Abraham David Christian
Abraham David Christian
-Life and Work:Christian's sculptures were included in Documenta 5, when he was only nineteen years old, and he had his first one-person show at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, in 1973...
, Robert Longo
Robert Longo
Robert Longo is an American painter and sculptor. Longo became famous in the 1980s for his "Men in the Cities" series, which depicted sharply dressed businessmen writhing in contorted emotion.-Early life and education:...
, Saint Clair Cemin
Saint Clair Cemin
Saint Clair Cemin is a sculptor.He studied at the École Nationale Superiore des Beaux Arts in Paris, France, in 1975, and moved to New York in 1978, to live and work. Saint Clair Cemin currently shows with the Brent Sikkema Gallery in New York City...
, Alessandro Twombly, David Salle
David Salle
David Salle is an American painter who helped define postmodern sensibility by combining figuration with a varied pictorial language of multi-imagery...
, Alex Katz
Alex Katz
Alex Katz is an American figurative artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally.-Life and work:...
, Mark Innerst and William Anastasi
William Anastasi
William Anastasi is an American painter and visual artist. He has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1960s...
. He has written the major monographs, Saint Clair Cemin: Sculptor from Cruz Alta and The Paintings of Ross Bleckner.
Among his other recent books are Malcolm Morley; Streets of Gold; Caravaggio on the Beach: Essays on Art in the 1990s; Hotel of the Heart: Poems 1997-2001; Jonathan Lasker: Expressions Become Things; Along the Hudson: Poems (with drawings by Abraham David Christian); Il Facchino di Venezia (The Porter of Venice): Poems 2002-2003; Green Nights / Golgotha / Love’s Quarrel: Poems 2001-2003; Mute Sirens: Poems (with photographs by Carlo Benvenuto); Stone Dragon Bridge: Poems 2006-2007; An Earring Depending from the Moon: Poems 2006; Circus in the Fog: Poems 2005-2006; and The Fishmonger’s Door: Poems of Modena (with photographs by Carlo Benvenuto).
Recently, he delivered six lectures at the Instituto Universitario di Architetura di Venezia on the paintings of Philip Taaffe
Philip Taaffe
Philip Taaffe is an American artistTaaffe was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and studied at the Cooper Union in New York, gaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1977....
. Most recently, he edited, with an introduction, Ross Bleckner's book, Examined Life: Writings 1972-2007, published by Edgewise Press, 2009. Forthcoming are two books of art criticism, According to What and Theory Sauvage, monographs on Peter Halley and Philip Taaffe, and a book of poetry, With Grass Ropes They Dragged the World to Her in Wooden Boats: Poems of Jordan, Syria and Egypt (with accompanying watercolors by Alessandro Twombly) (2008). Milazzo lives and works in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
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Published authors at Edgewise Press
- Alan Jones, Long After Hannibal Had Passed With Elephants: Poems and Epigrams
- Bruce BendersonBruce BendersonBruce Benderson is an American author, to Jewish parents of Russian descent, who lives in New York. He attended William Nottingham High School in Syracuse, New York and then Binghamton University...
, Toward the New Degeneracy: An Essay (2nd Edition) - Peter HalleyPeter Halley-Early Life and Career:Halley first came to prominence as a result of the geometric paintings rendered in intense day-glo colours that he produced in the early 1980s. His practice as an artist is usually associated with minimalism, neo-geo, and neo-conceptualism...
, Recent Essays 1990-1996 (out of print) - Nanni CagnoneNanni CagnoneNanni Cagnone is an Italian poet, novelist, essayist and playwright. He debuted as a poet in 1954, and since then has written several books, mostly poetry but also plays and novels, theoretical essays and aphorisms, from The Disabled Youth to The Oslo Lecture...
, The Book of Giving Back: A Poem - Jonathan LaskerJonathan LaskerJonathan Lasker is an American artist.Lasker was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California....
, Complete Essays 1984-1998 - Cid CormanCid CormanCid Corman was an American poet, translator and editor, most notably of Origin, who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century.-Early life and writing:...
, Tributary: Poems (edited by Philippe Briet) - B.H. Friedman, Swimming Laps: Stories and Meditations
- Abraham David ChristianAbraham David Christian-Life and Work:Christian's sculptures were included in Documenta 5, when he was only nineteen years old, and he had his first one-person show at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, in 1973...
, La Salle des Pieds Perdus: Drawing / Zeichnung - Remo Guidieri, Too Late Too Early: An Essay
- Rackstraw DownesRackstraw DownesRackstraw Downes is a British-born realist painter and author. His oil paintings are notable for their meticulous detail accumulated during months of plein-air sessions, depictions of industry and the environment, and elongated compositions with complex perspective.-Education:Born Rodney Harry...
, In Relation to the Whole: Three Essays from Three Decades - 1973, 1981, 1996 (2nd Edition) - Demosthenes Davvetas, Architecture of Tears: Stories, Poems, Aphorisms
- Mary de Rachewiltz, For the Wrong Reason: Poems
- John T. Spike, Dissimilar Revelations: Essays on Neolithic Art, Fra Angelico, Velázquez, Goya, and Cézanne
- Vik MunizVik MunizVicente José de Oliveira Muniz, known as Vik Muniz , is a visual artist living in New York City.-Early career:Muniz began his career as a sculptor in the late 1980s after relocating from Brazil to Chicago and later to New York. His early work grew out of a post-Fluxus aesthetic and often involved...
, Natura, Pictrix: Interviews and Essays on Photography - Saint Clair CeminSaint Clair CeminSaint Clair Cemin is a sculptor.He studied at the École Nationale Superiore des Beaux Arts in Paris, France, in 1975, and moved to New York in 1978, to live and work. Saint Clair Cemin currently shows with the Brent Sikkema Gallery in New York City...
, Fragments of a Mind: Stories and Comments on Art - Enrico PedriniEnrico PedriniEnrico Pedrini is an academic, theorist and collector of Conceptual Art. He is a professor of epistemology in Italy.-Research and curation:...
, Irreversibility and the Avant-Garde: An Essay on Physics and Modern Culture - Nanni Cagnone, Index Vacuus: Poems
- Joseph Masheck, The Carpet Paradigm: Integral Flatness from Decorative to Fine Art
- Peter Nadin, The First Mark: Unlearning How to Make Art
- Ross BlecknerRoss Bleckner-Life and work:"'I always absolutely thought there was a difference between being a young artist and an important young artist,' said Mr. Bleckner, who grew up in Hewlett, L.I., graduated in 1971 from New York University and earned an M.F.A...
, Examined Life: Writings 1972 - 2007 - Joseph NechvatalJoseph NechvatalJoseph Nechvatal is a post-conceptual art digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses.-Life and work:Joseph Nechvatal was born in Chicago...
, Towards an Immersive Intelligence: Essays on the Work of Art in the Age of Computer Technology and Virtual Reality 1993 - 2006 - Abraham David ChristianAbraham David Christian-Life and Work:Christian's sculptures were included in Documenta 5, when he was only nineteen years old, and he had his first one-person show at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, in 1973...
, La Salle des Pieds Perdus: Drawing / Zeichnung - Richard Milazzo, Jonathan Lasker: Expressions Become Things: From Sketch to Study to Painting
External links
- http://www.edgewisepress.com website of Edgewise Press