Description:
In Imperfect Fit, acclaimed poet, painter, and critic Allen Fisher offers a provocative exploration of the connections between art, poetry, perception, and aesthetic practice since 1950. Examining figures such as Cy Twombly, Joseph Beuys, Charles Olson, and William S. Burroughs, Fisher investigates how fragmentation, rupture, performance, and experimentation challenge traditional ideas of coherence, meaning, and artistic expression. Blending critical theory, art history, and literary analysis, this interdisciplinary study provides fresh perspectives on the creative possibilities of contemporary culture. This book will interest scholars of art history, literary criticism, aesthetics, creative writing, cultural studies, and readers interested in contemporary art and experimental poetics.
Review Quotes:
"These extraordinary essays by poet and painter Allen Fisher are foundational texts for contemporary UK poetics. For more than thirty years, Fisher has developed highly original, practical aesthetics based on a deep understanding of physics and psychology as well as art history, poetics, and philosophy. His poetry and his art works have consistently explored the ethics and aesthetics of the interrelatedness of science, art, and everyday life. In this essential book, Fisher persuasively gives the arts new scale and relevance in a scientific era."--Peter Middleton, author of The Inward Gaze: Masculinity and Subjectivity in Modern Culture and Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry