Happy Shopping - Massurrealist Spam Poetry
Hardcover, 114 pages
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In this book of poetry Cecil Touchon 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:...More >
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Product Details
| ISBN | 978-0-615-18244-5 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | cecil touchon |
| Copyright | ©2007 Ontological Museum Publications (Standard Copyright License) |
| Language | English |
| Country | United States |
| Publication Date | December 19, 2007 |
| Lulu Sales Rank | 55345 |
| Page Count | 114 pages |
| Size | U.S. Trade |
| Binding | Dust Jacket |
| Interior Color | Black And White |
