{"product_id":"styling-sagaciousness-joseph-nechvatal-9781685710668","title":"Styling Sagaciousness: Oh Great No!","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the Paris pandemic confinement period of 2020, with the dread of viral death in the air, artist Joseph Nechvatal finished his second book of poetry, titled \u003ci\u003eStyling Sagaciousness: Oh Great No!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mythopoeic mélange of \u003ci\u003eStyling Sagaciousness\u003c\/i\u003e is intended as a complicated forensic fairy-tale, suitable for Nô theater, which keeps slipping in and out of idiosyncratic narration, a ghostly appearance-disappearance act that turns on the nub of our narcissism concerning our death - that strange, incurable, and deeply irrational affliction we all share. Putting identity aside, Nechvatal's poetry tests the limits of form and stretches the bounds of meaning by recasting our experiences of encountering our self as the sumptuous physicality of total negation. As such, \u003ci\u003eStyling Sagaciousness\u003c\/i\u003e delivers an airy irrational punch of needed nonsensical negation by tying together insouciant informality with a visceral camp irony: at turns hip and flamboyant and morally outrageous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis seven-part death farce epic poem follows up Nechvatal's sex farce epic poem \u003ci\u003eDestroyer of Naivetés\u003c\/i\u003e. Nechvatal intends these two books (with complementary cover images of his painting \u003ci\u003epenelOpe in agOny\u003c\/i\u003e) to be the sum total of his mature poetic output; addressing first Eros, and then, with \u003ci\u003eStyling Sagaciousness, \u003c\/i\u003eThanatos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Nechvatal\u003c\/b\u003e is an American artist currently living in Paris. His post-conceptual art practice engages in the fragile wedding of image production and image resistance. Through his version of an art-of-noise, he brings a subversive reading of society through his use of custom a-life computational viruses. His computer-robotic assisted paintings and software animations are shown regularly. Nechvatal earned his Ph.D. in the philosophy of art and new technology at The Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA) at the University of Wales, Newport. From 1999 to 2014 he taught in the mfa graduate department at the School of Visual Arts. His book of essays \u003ci\u003eTowards an Immersive Intelligence: Essays on the Work of Art in the Age of Computer Technology and Virtual Reality (1993-2006)\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Edgewise Press in 2009. In 2011 his book\u003ci\u003e Immersion into Noise\u003c\/i\u003e was published by the University of Michigan Library's Scholarly Publishing Office in conjunction with the Open Humanities Press. He has also already published two books with punctum books: \u003ci\u003eMinóy\u003c\/i\u003e (ed.) (2014) \u0026amp; \u003ci\u003eDestroyer of Naivetés\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). In 2021 a cassette of his\u003ci\u003e Selected Sound Works\u003c\/i\u003e (1981-2021) was published by Pentiments experimental music and sound art label.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Nechvatal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1685710662\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781685710668\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Punctum Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Joseph Nechvatal","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48436943716607,"sku":"9781685710668","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ed0dcd86-ca20-47ae-bbd7-60cdf4e9415d.jpg?v=1777158827","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/styling-sagaciousness-joseph-nechvatal-9781685710668","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}