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Copyright:
© 2007 Cecil Touchon Standard Copyright License
Language:
English
Country:
United States
Edition: 1st Edition
Description:Two Hundred Poems of Cecil Touchon's Massurrealist collage poetry in a hardback, collectible edition. This contains "Sell People Things They Don't Need" and "Is It Necessary to Say Something?" This is the first book of Massurrealist Poetry. The poetry has been constructed rather than invented. This is a distinction similar to the difference between a drawing and a collage. A drawing is completely fabricated by the artist while a collage is constructed from preexisting parts which have been carefully arranged or even haphazardly arranged! These arrangements are often disjointed, surprising and serendipitous. |
Publisher: Ontological Museum Publications
Rights Owner: Cecil Touchon
Copyright: © 2007 Cecil
Touchon
Language: English
Country: United States
Edition: First Edition
Description:In Cecil Touchon's third
book of poetry he extracts material from the very
fabric of
the massurreality; texts from spam email. In these poems Touchon gives
us a contemplative glimpse into contemporary artistic practice where
the artist becomes, much more a connector of things than a creator.
Every day trillions of bits of data are transmitted over the Internet.
As artists peer into this world of information overload a vast body of
incoherent data is brought into view. Much like the subconscious
explored by the early Surrealists, Touchon uses this raw material to
explore unlikely configurations through the use of found text, the
abutment of random, unrelated words and phrases such as the classic
example from Lautréamonts Chants de Maldoror: "the unexpected
meeting,
on a dissection table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella". This
embrace of randomness is central to Touchon’s poetic output. This handsome,
collectable hardback edition features a cover image by the founder of
Massurrealism, James Seehafer of the classic shopping cart. |