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{{short description|American artist, author, and critic (born 1940)}}{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2013}}{{BLP sources|date=June 2009}}Richard Cory Kostelanetz (born May 14, 1940) is an American artist, author, and critic.

Birth and Education

Kostelanetz was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the conductor Andre Kostelanetz. He has a B.A. (1962) from Brown University and an M.A. (1966) in American History from Columbia University under Woodrow Wilson, NYS Regents, and International Fellowships; he also studied at King's College London as a Fulbright Scholar during 1964-1965.Directory of American Scholars, 6th ed. (Bowker, 1974), Vol. I, p. 350.He is the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation (1967), Pulitzer Foundation (1965), the DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm (1981–1983), Vogelstein Foundation (1980), Fund for Investigative Journalism (1981), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2001), CCLM (1981), ASCAP (1983 annually to the present), American Public Radio Program Fund (1984), and the National Endowment for the Arts with ten individual awards (1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991). He also assumed production residencies at the Electronic Music Studio of Stockholm, Experimental TV Center (Owego, NY), Mishkenot Sha'ananim (Jerusalem), and the MIT Media Lab.

Works

Kostelanetz came onto the literary scene with essays in quarterlies such as Partisan Review and The Hudson Review, then profiles of older artists, musicians and writers for The New York Times Magazine;NEWS,weblink Kostelanetz Lecture Slated, April 10, 1977, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), April 26, 2024, 18F, Newspapers.com, these profiles were collected in Master Minds (1969).NEWS, Rosemary, Yardley,weblink Fourteen Of America's Eggiest Heads, October 26, 1969, Greensboro News and Record, April 17, 2024, B4, Newspapers.com, His book The End of Intelligent Writing: Literary Politics in America (1974) caused considerable controversy.NEWS, Robert, Kirsch,weblink Corrupting the Literary Politics of America, December 5, 1974, Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2024, IV-19, Newspapers.com, NEWS, Francis J., Thompson,weblink Muggers Among the Literati, November 24, 1974, Minneapolis Tribune, April 17, 2024, 5-C, Newspapers.com, NEWS, Lisa, Tuttle,weblink They Wouldn't Neglect the Art, February 16, 1975, Austin American-Statesman, April 17, 2024, 41, Newspapers.com, NEWS, Wayne J., Henkel,weblink Peeling the New York literary onion, February 16, 1975, Baltimore Sun, April 17, 2024, D-5, Newspapers.com, NEWS, Russell, Kirk,weblink Trouble faced by book trade, March 24, 1975, Daily Advance (Lynchburg, Virginia), April 17, 2024, 6, Newspapers.com, NEWS, Dimitri, Rotov,weblink 'End of Intelligent Writing' presents author's accusations, February 2, 1975, Columbus (Georgia) Ledger, April 21, 2024, B-6, Newspapers.com, SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony (2003) chronicles cultural life in New York City in the late 20th century. In 1967, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest," vowing to refuse to pay taxes raised to fund the Vietnam War.WEB,weblink Letter from Ronald, September 8, 1967, Books of his radically alternative fiction include In the Beginning (1971) (the alphabet arranged in single and double letter combinations), Short Fictions (1974), More Short Fictions (1980, and Furtherest Fictions (2007)); of his mostly visual poetry, Visual Language (1970),NEWS, Shari, Wilson, Concrete poetry has a way of making its presence felt,weblink November 17, 1973, Tampa Times, April 25, 2024, 6-A, Newspapers.com, I Articulations (1974), Wordworks (1993), and More Wordworks (2006).Among the anthologies he has edited are On Contemporary Literature (1964, 1969), Beyond Left & Right (1968), Possibilities of Poetry (1970),NEWS, Joseph, Haas, Anthology Of Poetry Is Praised,weblink February 24, 1971, The World-News (Roanoke, Virginia), April 25, 2024, 18, Newspapers.com, John Cage (1970, 1991), Moholy-Nagy (1970),NEWS, Michael, McNay,weblink Art(s) history on the wing, May 30, 1974, The Guardian (London), April 17, 2024, 10, Newspapers.com, Seeing Through Shuck (1972),NEWS, Clarence, Petersen,weblink Petersen on Paperbacks, October 8, 1972, Chicago Tribune, April 25, 2024, 7-Book World, Newspapers.com, Breakthrough Fictioneers (1973), Scenarios (1980), Text-Sound Texts (1980),NEWS, John, Gabree,weblink New and Notable, May 4, 1980, Newsday, April 21, 2024, 16-Ideas, Newspapers.com, Social Speculations: Visions for Our Time (1971),NEWS, Marni, Jackson,weblink Current Titles: As thinkers see the world, February 6, 1971, Toronto Star, April 21, 2024, 65, Newspapers.com, Human Alternatives (1971),NEWS, Richard, Wyatt,weblink Essay Series Covers Universal Subjects, October 31, 1971, Tulsa World, April 25, 2024, 7-Magazine, Newspapers.com, and The Literature of SoHo (1981).Kostelanetz also edited Nicolas Slonimsky: The First Hundred Years (1994),NEWS, Peter, Gorner,weblink Vintage Nicolas Slonimsky: America's music man, May 6, 1994, Chicago Tribune, April 25, 2024, 8-Tempo, Newspapers.com, AnOther e e cummings (1998), NEWS, Steven, Poole,weblink The List, September 5, 1998, The Guardian (London), April 26, 2024, 10-Saturday Review, Newspapers.com, Virgil Thompson: A Reader - Selected Writings 1924-1984 (2002)NEWS, Jeff, Simon,weblink Editor's Choice, September 8, 2002, Buffalo News, April 21, 2024, H-7, Newspapers.com, and Aaron Copland: A Reader - Selected Writings 1923-1972 (2003).NEWS, Greg, Stepanich,weblink Deserved fanfare for a very uncommon man, January 11, 2004, The State (Columbia, South Carolina), April 21, 2024, E5, Newspapers.com, A political anarchist-libertarian, he authored Political Essays (1999) and Toward Secession: More Political Essays (2008) and has since 1987 been a contributing editor for Liberty.WEB, Editors and Staff,weblink Liberty Foundation, 10 March 2014, In 1973 he was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto II.WEB,weblink Humanist Manifesto II, American Humanist Association, October 15, 2012, October 20, 2012,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121020110719weblink">weblink dead,

Media

Among his literary contemporaries, Richard Kostelanetz has also produced literature in audio, video, holography, prints, book-art, computer-based installations, among other new media. Though he coined the term "polyartist" to characterize people who excel at two or more nonadjacent arts, he considers that, since nearly all his creative work incorporates language or literary forms, it represents Writing reflecting polyartistry. "Wordsand" (1978–81) was a traveling early retrospective of his work in several media.NEWS, Bente Roed, Cochran,weblink Imagery of symbols created in exhibit, October 14, 1978, Edmondton Journal, April 17, 2024, C5, Newspapers.com, NEWS, Helen L., Kohen,weblink Variety Adds Spice at Campus Shows, October 10, 1980, Miami Herald, April 17, 2024, 1D,14D, Newspapers.com,

Bibliography

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• "A Critical Look at the Critics", Twentieth Century ( essay, Spring 1966)
• The Theatre of Mixed Means (1968)NEWS, Donald, Stanley,weblink Theater That's Mixed Up, March 22, 1968, San Francisco Examiner, April 25, 2024, 35, Newspapers.com,
• 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.NEWS, James, Wierbzbicki,weblink Capsule of summer's new books on classical music, July 4, 1988, Thousand Oaks News Chronicle, April 26, 2024, 8, Newspapers.com,
• 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)NEWS, Phil, Baker,weblink Review of "Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes", April 5, 1994, The Guardian (London), April 21, 2024, 2:14, Newspapers.com,
• 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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Reviews

{{BLP unsourced section|date=January 2018}}His work has been acknowledged at some length(s) in the following and additional works:

• Ronald S. Berman's "America in the Sixties" (1967)
• Ihab Hassan's "Contemporary American Literature" (1973)
• Robert Spiller's "Literary History of the United States" (fourth ed., 1974)
• "The Reader's Adviser" (1969 & 1974)
• Daniel Hoffman's "Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing" (1979)
• Irving and Anne D. Weiss's "Thesaurus of Book Digests" 1950–1980 (1981)
• George Myers' "Introduction to Modern Times" (1982)
• David Cope's "New Directions in Music" (1984)
• Joan Lyons' "Artists' Books" (1985)
• Tom Holmes' "Electronic and Experimental Music" (1985)
• Jamake Highwater's "Shadow Show" (1986)
• "Columbia Literary History of the United States" (1988)
• Eric Salzman's "Twentieth-Century Music: An Introduction" (third edition, 1988)
• Tom Johnson's "The Voice of the New Music" (1989)
• Robert Siegle's "Suburban Ambush" (1989)
• John Rodden's "The Politics of Literary Reputation" (1989)
• "The Reader's Catalog" (1989)
• Lydia Goehr's "The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works" (1992)
• Bob Grumman's "Of Manywhere-at-Once" (1998)
• Samuel R. Delany's "About Writing" (2005)
• Kyle Gann's "Music Downtown" (2006)
• Sally Banes's "Before, Between, and Beyond: Three Decades of Dance Writing" (2007, University of Wisconsin Press)
• C. T. Funkhouser's "Prehistoric Digital Poetry" (2007)
• Geza Perneczky's "Assembling Magazines 1969–2000" (2007)

References

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External links

• Britannica Online Encyclopedia – Richard Kostelanetz
• The Fales Library Guide to the Richard Kostelanetz Papers
• RichardKostelanetz.com
• Pulley Press: Richard Kostelanetz
• Richard Kostelanetz Bibliography
• Deep Listening Catalogue: Richard Kostelanetz
• Poem by Richard Kostelanetz in Shampoo Issue 14
• Collected Stories – A Word with the Writer Richard Kostelanetz by D. Albanese (2001)
• Richard Kostelanetz: experimental prose – Epiphanies
• Microstories by Richard Kostelanetz in Gander Press Review{{dl|date=May 2022}}
• Openings and (Complete) Shorter Stories by Richard Kostelanetz in The Cafe Irreal
• Invocations Album Details at Smithsonian Folkways
• Richard Kostelanetz, "1001 Film Scenarios – Selections from a Proposed Chapbook," Script 1.2 (January 2010) (June 3, 2010)

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