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Ugly Duckling Presse
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Tuesday Mar 31, 2009 (7pm)
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To appropriate a line from Gertrude Stein, conceptual writers know: "To write is to write is to write is to write…" This distinctly un-literary movement — defined by borrowing, self-reflexivity, and near-mathematical liguistic logic — traces its avant-garde practice to test-the-limit innovators like Stein, John Cage, and Andy Warhol. Examples include an edition of the New York Times copied verbatim, and John Baldessari's winking lithograph "I will not make any more boring art." Tonight, Brooklyn-based publisher Ugly Ducking Presse commemorates the release of Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman's soon-to-be essential Notes on Conceptualism with performances by Nada Gordon, Kim Rosenfield, and Lytle Shaw, among other linguistic gymnasts.
