Richard Kostelanetz

Background

Kostelanetz, Richard was born on May 14, 1940 in New York, United States. Son of Boris and Ethel (Cory) Kostelanetz.

Education

AB with honors, Brown University, 1962. Postgraduate (Fulbright scholar), King's College, University London, 1965. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1966.

Career

Program associate thematic studies John Jay College City University of New York, 1972-1973. Senior staff Indiana University Writers' Conference, 1976. Visiting professor English and American studies University Texas at Austin, 1977.

Visiting professor of theater Hunter College, City University of New York, 2002. Guest Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem, 1979, 86, German Academic Exchange Service Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, 1981-1983. Master artist Atlantic Center for the Arts, 2001.

Achievements

• Richard Kostelanetz has been listed as a notable Writer, media and visual artist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Politics in the African-American Novel: James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)

    ( One of America's most distinguished independent artists...)

  • Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music: A Continuing Symposium

    (Thirty-five essays explore major topics in modern music, ...)

  • ADDITIONS to Soho: The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony

    (For a second edition of my SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an ...)

  • Writings on Glass: Essays, Interviews, Criticism

    ( Philip Glass, composer of symphonies, operas (Einstein ...)

  • John Cage: Documentary Monographs in Modern Art

    (Articles providing a chronology of Cage's life and work 1...)

  • On Innovative Performance(s): Three Decades of Recollections on Alternative Theater

    (This collection of essays (some reprinted) from the leadi...)

  • Visual Literature Criticism: A New Collection

    ( Although excellent anthologies of visual literature hav...)

  • Soho: The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony

    (Soho: The Rise and Fall documents how a little-known indu...)

  • An ABC of contemporary reading

    (Long regarded among the principal American critics and th...)

  • The Gertrude Stein Reader: The Great American Pioneer of Avant-Garde Letters

    (The literary legacy of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) consist...)

  • The New Poetries and Some Old (A Chicago Classic)

    ( This collection of twenty-nine essays represents a summ...)

  • Conversing with Cage

    (signed by Cage on first blank page; good overall with no ...)

  • Furtherest Fictions

    (RICHARD KOSTELANETZ has been publishing radically alterna...)

  • Erotic Minimal Fictions

    (Erotic Minimal Fictions collects from stylistically avant...)

  • Conversing with Cage (Paperback) - Common

    (Conversing With Cage is the ideal introduction to this wo...)

  • The Maturity of American Thought

    (The Maturity of American Thought was begun in the late 19...)

  • More Portraits from Memory

    (A memoir composed of individual portraits of women known,...)

  • A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes

    (A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes recognizes that change i...)

  • The End of Intelligent Writing: Literary Politics in America

    (The End of Intelligent Writing: Literary Politics in Amer...)

  • 12 From the Sixties

    (12 From The Sixties, by Kostelanetz, Richard, Ed.)

  • American Writing Today

    (American Studies, Literary Studies)

  • The Old Fictions and the New

    (Book by Kostelanetz, Richard)

  • Conversing with Cage

    (First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)

  • Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music: A Continuing Symposium by Richard Kostelanetz (1996-12-13)

    (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

  • Breakthrough fictioneers;: An anthology

    (Hardcover collection.)

  • Minimal Fictions

    (Concrete Fiction. Offered here for the first time in book...)

  • MOHOLY-NAGY: A New Vision for Chicago

    (A design classic. A must have for any Bauhaus fan.)

  • Edge of Adaptation: Man and the Emerging Society (Human Futures)

    (Sociology)

  • Recircuits

    (Poetry. Long concerned with poetic invention, the indispu...)

  • 35 Years of Visible Writing: A Memoir

    (Poetry. In this striking collection, Kostelanetz, a giant...)

  • More Wordworks

    (Poetry. Art. This book features important new visual work...)

  • More Fulcra Poems

    (poems)

  • Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes by Kostelanetz, Richard, Brittain, H. R. (1999) Hardcover

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  • Human alternatives; visions for us now

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  • Wordsand: 1967-1978 : art with words, numbers and lines, in several media : an unillustrated catalog with related documents
  • The Old Poetries & the New (Poets on Poetry)
  • John Cage Ex(plain)ed Paperback - April 1, 1996
  • End Essentials: Intelligent Writing Epitomized
  • Social Speculations Visions for Our Time
  • A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes 2nd edition by Kostelanetz, Richard (2001) Paperback
  • Soho: The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony 1st edition by Kostelanetz, Richard (2003) Hardcover
  • The theatre of mixed means;: An introduction to happenings, kinetic environments, and other mixed-means performances
  • Portraits from memory
  • (SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony) Author: Richard Kostelanetz published on (June, 2003)
  • Essaying Essays - Alternative Forms of Exposition
  • Seeing through shuck (A Ballantine Walden edition)
  • Metamorphosis in the Arts: A Critical History of the 1960's
  • A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes by Richard Kostelanetz (2001-08-30)
  • Esthetics Contemporary: 1st (First) Edition
  • One night stood
  • 12 From the Sixties: The Decade's Most Provocative and Significant Writers
  • Breakthrough fictioneers;: An anthology
  • On Innovative Art(ist)s: Recollections of an Expanding Field
  • John Cage Ex(plain)ed
  • Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Hardcover - Revised Ed.)--by Richard Kostelanetz 2000 Edition
  • The theatre of mixed-means: An introduction to happenings, kinetic environments, and other mixed-means presentations
  • The Frank Zappa Companion. Four Decades of Commentary
  • Portraits from Memory
  • The Young American Writers
  • (Conversing with Cage ) Author: Richard Kostelanetz Jan-2003
  • Conversing with Cage 2nd edition by Kostelanetz, Richard (2003) Paperback
  • The Young American Writers: Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Criticism
  • The B. B. King Companion by Richard Kostelanetz (1997-05-01)
  • Thirty years of critical engagements with John Cage
  • Edge of Adaptation: Man and the Emerging Society (Human Futures)
  • (A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes) Author: Richard Kostelanetz published on (September, 2001)
  • (Soho: The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony) Author: Richard Kostelanetz published on (October, 2013)

Membership

Member National Coalition Indiana Scholars, International Association Art Critics, Society for Origination of Horspiel in American, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Father:

Boris Kostelanetz

Mother:

Ethel (Cory) Kostelanetz