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The Pontoon Manifesto

Henry James Korn

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Description:Thirty-three fictional beginnings to be shuffled and read in any order.According to Richard Kostelanetz, critic, curator and language artist, Henry James Korn's The Pontoon Manifesto is a pioneering modular fiction. This late 1960's literary experiment anticipated some major themes and plot points in Korn's novel Amerikan Krazy . The Pontoon Manifesto was initially floated in a pair of paperback anthologies. In 1975, Korn's experiment was re-published as a limited edition artist book in the form of a deck of cards "to be shuffled and read in any order."REVIEWS & COMMENTS'Thirty-three fictional beginnings to be shuffled and read in any order?' I did it and I'm hooked.-Alexandra Garrett, NewLetters, Beyond Baroque Foundation Los Angeles, 1975Korn's persona is a latter-day Huck Finn on his raft riding out of yesterday into today, graduating from innocence to the no-sense world of Tanguy, Ernst, Dali and Kafka. This post-McLuhan Shandyesque card-read, play-book is elegant, whimsical, politically satirical and truly surreal.-Arlene Zekowski, Small Press Review, Dustbooks, Paradise, California, 1975This fictional house of cards is designed to destroy the everlasting sanity of librarians everywhere.-Bill Katz, "Best Small Press Titles of 1975" Library Journal, New York, 1975The Pontoon Manifesto can be read as many ways as it can be shuffled, creating a new plot with every reading. In trusting his reader to create the fiction, Korn appears to believe my mind contains as many interesting possibilities as his own.-Tom Montag, Learning to Read Again: Some Notes on Eight Recent Books, Cat's Pajama Press, Oak Park, Ill, 1976Free from an established view of art and literature, Henry James Korn challenges us to take up the gauntlet and write our own stories.-Loris Essary, Assembling Assembling, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, 1978SELECTED EXHIBITIONSAssembling Assembling curated by Richard Kostelanetz, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, 1978Language & Structure in North America curated by Richard Kostelanetz, Center for Experimental Art & Communication, Toronto, 1975SELECTED COLLECTIONSBibliotheca ItalianeKings College, LondonMuseum of Modern Art, New YorkPUBLICATION HISTORYUS: The Roots of Underground Culture edited by Richard Goldstein, Bantam Books, New York, 1970.In Youth: the Writers Today and the Writing of Tomorrow, edited by Richard Kostelanetz, Ballantine Books, New York, 1972.The Pontoon Manifesto 'artist book' card deck version printed in an edition of one hundred of which twenty-six were signed and lettered by the author. Assembling Press, New York, 1975The Pontoon Manifesto poster version printed with dotted lines and folded into Intermedia Magazine edited by Harley W. Lond, Los Angeles, 1976The Pontoon Manifesto electronic edition designed by Boffo Socko Books with a 'randomizer' that endlessly shuffles thirty-three cyber-paragraphs at a click of a button, 2015We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Pontoon Manifesto. To get started finding The Pontoon Manifesto, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 40

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Publisher: Assembling Press

Release: 1974

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Description: Thirty-three fictional beginnings to be shuffled and read in any order.According to Richard Kostelanetz, critic, curator and language artist, Henry James Korn's The Pontoon Manifesto is a pioneering modular fiction. This late 1960's literary experiment anticipated some major themes and plot points in Korn's novel Amerikan Krazy . The Pontoon Manifesto was initially floated in a pair of paperback anthologies. In 1975, Korn's experiment was re-published as a limited edition artist book in the form of a deck of cards "to be shuffled and read in any order."REVIEWS & COMMENTS'Thirty-three fictional beginnings to be shuffled and read in any order?' I did it and I'm hooked.-Alexandra Garrett, NewLetters, Beyond Baroque Foundation Los Angeles, 1975Korn's persona is a latter-day Huck Finn on his raft riding out of yesterday into today, graduating from innocence to the no-sense world of Tanguy, Ernst, Dali and Kafka. This post-McLuhan Shandyesque card-read, play-book is elegant, whimsical, politically satirical and truly surreal.-Arlene Zekowski, Small Press Review, Dustbooks, Paradise, California, 1975This fictional house of cards is designed to destroy the everlasting sanity of librarians everywhere.-Bill Katz, "Best Small Press Titles of 1975" Library Journal, New York, 1975The Pontoon Manifesto can be read as many ways as it can be shuffled, creating a new plot with every reading. In trusting his reader to create the fiction, Korn appears to believe my mind contains as many interesting possibilities as his own.-Tom Montag, Learning to Read Again: Some Notes on Eight Recent Books, Cat's Pajama Press, Oak Park, Ill, 1976Free from an established view of art and literature, Henry James Korn challenges us to take up the gauntlet and write our own stories.-Loris Essary, Assembling Assembling, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, 1978SELECTED EXHIBITIONSAssembling Assembling curated by Richard Kostelanetz, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, 1978Language & Structure in North America curated by Richard Kostelanetz, Center for Experimental Art & Communication, Toronto, 1975SELECTED COLLECTIONSBibliotheca ItalianeKings College, LondonMuseum of Modern Art, New YorkPUBLICATION HISTORYUS: The Roots of Underground Culture edited by Richard Goldstein, Bantam Books, New York, 1970.In Youth: the Writers Today and the Writing of Tomorrow, edited by Richard Kostelanetz, Ballantine Books, New York, 1972.The Pontoon Manifesto 'artist book' card deck version printed in an edition of one hundred of which twenty-six were signed and lettered by the author. Assembling Press, New York, 1975The Pontoon Manifesto poster version printed with dotted lines and folded into Intermedia Magazine edited by Harley W. Lond, Los Angeles, 1976The Pontoon Manifesto electronic edition designed by Boffo Socko Books with a 'randomizer' that endlessly shuffles thirty-three cyber-paragraphs at a click of a button, 2015We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Pontoon Manifesto. To get started finding The Pontoon Manifesto, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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