Listening into writing; reading into writing take shape in F.M.R.L. through a collection of short texts; fragments and lsquo;deranged essaysrsquo;; with attention to pacing and linguistic derives. An archive of books; notebooks; events and records prompts the texts in these pages; responding to encounters with Michel Leirisrsquo;s autobiographical fictions; concerts and events at Cafeacute; Oto and the Swedenborg House in London; visits to museums such as the Pitt Rivers in Oxford and exhibitions such as Ice Age Art at the British Museum; among the others. F.M.R.L. is a book constructed across sonic patterns; assonance; repetitions; comprising texts that intermittently drift from sense to sound and to nonsense and back. A flip from the immateriality of sound to the sounds of letters and words as material; a call from reading to voicing.
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Review
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Helpful but not worth $100 plusBy Richard W. Hoover Sr.If this book is anything like the authors companion work on Renaissance Art (which it is); it is 600-some pages of introduction and chronology; with articles on personalities; locations; iconography and specific works. While it is both useful and portable (check out the minuscule dimensions of this tome); it is no $100-plus production; whether in terms of illustrations (drab) or of content. The companion volume on the Renaissance cost me; from an seller; eleven bucks in "like new" condition. I am sure this one on Baroque Art will soon be similarly priced. At 25 or 30 dollars; assuming (which I do) that the quality of both books is the same; I would have given an extra star to the book on the Baroque.
