Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde

Book Overview

Wireless Imagination addresses perhaps the most conspicuous silence in contemporary theory and art criticism, the silence that surrounds the polyphonous histories of audio art. Composed of both original essays and several newly translated documents, this book provides a close audition to some of the most telling and soundful moments in the "deaf century," conceived and performed by such artists as Raymond Roussel, Antonin Artaud, Marcel Duchamp, Andr...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026261104X
• ISBN13: 9780262611046
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher