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Welish, Marjorie was born on June 2, 1944 in New York City. Daughter of Aaron Welish and Hester Hellman.
(A study of the work of a generation of 'respondents' to t...)
A study of the work of a generation of 'respondents' to the New York School.
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Poetry. "THE WINDOWS FLEW OPEN is a collection long anticipated and now beautifully realized. It explores the inner landscapes of psyche and dream, but also the surface tensions and contradictory currents of the world before us. If, adrift on this flow or flaw, we are actually to go somewhere, as I think we must, then here are the words of the speaking boat, whose sail is a tongue"-Michael Palmer.
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Bridging the gap between Language School poetics and New American Poetry, Word Group blends collage with dizzying grammar and a pyrotechnic display of surreal syntax. These new poems create music in verbal tapestries of abstract ideas and precise observations. As C.D. Wright said of the author, “there may be no known correspondences for Marjorie Welish’s mind. She’s a little bit scary.” Poet, painter and critic, Marjorie Welish teaches at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and as a visiting art critic and poetry professor at Brown University. She is the author of The Annotated “Here” and Selected Poems which was a Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist and a Village Voice Best Book of the Year. She lives in New York City.
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Language that engenders sense rather than depicting sense is the poetic assumption of Casting Sequences. By presupposing, like the Surrealists and the French Symbolists, that language is experience and not just a defective substitute for it, Marjorie Welish elevates the medium of words. In lyrics driven at times by sound associations, at other times by style and literariness, these poems move freely among matters germane to the writing and reading of poetry itself.
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(Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 considers the wo...)
Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 considers the work of a generation of "respondants" to the New York School, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, who reintroduced pictorialism and verbal content in their paintings and assemblages. Their work, Marjorie Welish argues, often alludes to the history of art and culture. Also examined are the works of Minimal and Conceptual artists, particularly Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt, who sought to make objective and theoretical artifacts in response to the subjectivity that Abstract Expressionism had promoted. By interpreting the work of these artists in light of contemporary issues, Welish offers a fresh reevaluation of some of the major trends and production of postwar American painting.
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Poetry. ELSE, IN SUBSTANCE advances specific tactics for constructing poems of sequences, or parts of sentences. The title poem proposes that a word is put through trials of similarity and difference: The necessary dress/ The contingent dress.// For the thesis that/ realizing the ideal// cannot be/ in objects such as these// lexicons/ not self-identical,// as of forgetful Greece,/ say again,// say again,/ in memoriam// happens always, frequently/ in prophetic dress... Another poem, titled Possible Fires, compiles three procedures for rendering sentences from words, or rather, allows the relay, a variant of the relay, and an algorithm to do their work. These and the rest of the poems that constitute this book affirm Marjorie Welish as one of America's most challenging and rewarding authors. Welish is the author of AND THE WINDOWS FLEW OPEN (Burning Deck) and TWO POEMS (Z Press), both of which are available from SPD. Saddlestapled chapbook.
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Welish, Marjorie was born on June 2, 1944 in New York City. Daughter of Aaron Welish and Hester Hellman.
Bachelor, Columbia University, 1968. Master of Fine Arts, Vermont College, 2003.
Welish is a graduate of Columbia University and received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Vermont College and Norwich University. She is also a painter and is represented by Baumgartner Gallery (New York) and Aaron Galleries (Chicago). She lives in New York City and teaches art and literary criticism and art history at Pratt Institute.
She has also frequently taught poetry at Brown University.
Welish was the Judith East. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University in 2005. Her writing on art has appeared in Art in America, Art International, Art News, BOMB (magazine), Partisan Review, and Salmagundi.
A collection of her art criticism came out in 1999 entitled, Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960. In April 2001, a conference at the University of Pennsylvania was held to compile Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Cambridge University Press), a retrospective collection of papers and presentations given on her work, as well as a selection of Welish"s writing and painting.
She has received grants and fellowships from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, the Djerassi Foundation, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Fifth Floor Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the International Studio Program, the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
(Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 considers the wo...)
( Bridging the gap between Language School poetics and Ne...)
(Language that engenders sense rather than depicting sense...)
(A study of the work of a generation of 'respondents' to t...)
(Poetry. "THE WINDOWS FLEW OPEN is a collection long antic...)
(Poetry. ELSE, IN SUBSTANCE advances specific tactics for ...)
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Modern Language Association, Academy American Poets, Poetry Society of America, International Writers Association, College Art Association, International Association Art Critics.