Richard Kostelanetz
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Richard Cory Kostelanetz (born May 14, 1940) is an American artist, author, and critic known for such books as A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (1993).
He was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the composer Andre Kostelanetz. He has a B.A. from Brown University and an M.A. from Columbia University; he studied as well at King's College London. He is a passionate defender of originality, the avant-garde and high modernism.
He came onto the literary scene with essays in quarterlies like The Hudson Review, then profiles of older artists, musicians and writers for The New York Times; these profiles were collected in Master Minds.
Not one to shy away from controversy, he turned on his literary elders with The End of Intelligent Writing.
Among the anthologies of younger writers he has edited: Scenarios(1980) and The Literature of SoHo (1981). SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony (2003) evinces not the Latest but the Last.
A political libertarian, he is a contributing editor for Liberty magazine.
Bibliography
- "A Critical Look at the Critics", Twentieth Century ( essay, Spring 1966)
- The Theatre of Mixed Means (1968)
- Master Minds (1969)
- Visual Language (1970)
- In the Beginning (1971, novel)
- Recyclings, Volume One (1974)
- The End of Intelligent Writing: Literary Politics in America (1974, criticism)
- I Articulations/Short Fictions (1974)
- Openings & Closings (1975)
- Portraits from Memory (1975)
- Constructs (1975)
- Illuminations (1977)
- One Night Stood (1977)
- Wordsand (1978)
- Constructs Two (1978)
- And So Forth (1979)
- Exhaustive Parallel Intervals (1979)
- "The End" Appendix/"The End" Essentials (1979)
- Twenties in the Sixties (1979)
- Metamorphosis in the Arts (1980)
- More Short Fictions (1980)
- Reincarnations (1981)
- The Old Poetries and the New (1981)
- Autobiographies (1981)
- Invocations (Folkways Records, 1983)
- American Imaginations (1983)
- Epiphanies (1983)
- Recyclings: A Literary Autobiography (1984)
- Autobiographien New York Berlin (1986)
- Prose Pieces/Aftertexts (1987)
- The Old Fictions and the New (1987)
- Conversing with Cage (1988) (second ed., 2003), a collage of interviews with John Cage.
- On Innovative Music(ian)s (1989)
- Unfinished Business: An Intellectual Nonhistory, 1963–89 (1990)
- The New Poetries and Some Olds (1991)
- Politics in the African-American Novel (1991, criticism)
- Solos, Duets, Trios & Choruses (1991)
- Published Encomia 1967–91 (1991)
- On Innovative Art(ist)s (1992)
- Wordworks: Poems New & Selected (1993)
- A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (1993)
- On Innovative Performance(s) (1994)
- Minimal Fictions (1994)
- An ABC of Contemporary Reading (1995)
- Fillmore East: Recollections of Rock Theater (1995)
- One Million Words of Booknotes, 1959–93 (1995)
- Radio Writing (1995)
- Crimes of Culture (1995)
- John Cage Ex(plain)ed (1996)
- Thirty-Five Years of Critical Engagements with John Cage (1996)
- Ecce Kosti (1996)
- Vocal Shorts: Collected Performance Texts (1998)
- 3-Element Stories (1998)
- Political Essays (1999)
- SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony (2003)
- Autobiographies at 60 (2004)
- Thirty-Five Years of Visible Writing (2004)
- Film & Video: Alternative Views (2005)
- Ghosts (2005)
- More Wordworks (2006)
- Autobiographies at 50 (2006)
- Home & Away: Travel Essays (2006)
- Book-Art, Anthologies, & Alternative Publishing (2006)
- On Sports & Sportsmen (2006)
- The Maturity of American Thought (2006)
- Furtherest Fictions (2007)
- Vertical Single-Sentence Stories (2007)
- Toward Secession (2007)
- The Art of Radio in North America (2008)
- Skeptical Critiques (2009)
- Innumerable chapbooks and editions of poetry, fiction, and innovative prose.
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