Nanoscience and nanotechnology are interdisciplinary fields that bring together physicists, chemists, materials scientists, and engineers to meet the potential future challenges that humankind will fa
SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York unintentionally became - for a brief period - a nexus of creative activity. Taking advan
For this American edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz has selected from the fuller third edition his en
Twenty-five years after the publication of A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz returns to his favorite subject for a third edition. Rewrit
Poetry. The critical measure for visual poetry is, simply, the visual enhancement of language. With his latest book ROUNDELAYS, Richard Kostelanetz takes single English words and then animates them on
The Rise and Fall of Artists' SoHo documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York unintentionally became a nexus of creative activity for a brief but intensive period. Taking advanta
Literary Nonfiction. Cultural Studies. A heavyweight confronting sanctified elephants, the impossibly prolific anarchist and libertarian cultural critic targets, with dead-on accuracy and quotable wit
Now for its third edition, more than a quarter-century later, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz returns to his favorite subject: the avant-garde in all the arts. Rewritin
Poetry. Art. This book features important new visual works by one of the U.S.'s best known and respected avant-garde writers. "The principal subject of my poems is qualities indigenous to words themse
These classic essays by an important independent scholar cull the novels of the Afro-American writers James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison for their political mean
