Disguise the Limit: John Yau’s Collaborations

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Author: Yau, JohnThe poetry of Chinese American poet John Yau is infused with humour and intelligence. Yau uses a variety of poetic forms to examine aspects of visual art, film and popular culture. His critical writing is celebrated for providing fresh insights about already codified artists & for situating diverse practitioners into historical contexts. 'Disguise the Limit' features numerous works that Yau has created with visual artists during the past five decades, in a wide variety of formats. The result of friendships and shared sensibilities, these works reveal the poet’s embrace of both representation and abstraction as foils for language generation. Offering nimble turns of phrase, Zen koans, road sign warnings and fragmented poems, Yau is in his element when operating in the performative time and space that collaboration requires. ISBN 9781882007011. University of Kentucky Art Museum. pb. 120 pages. 110 colour, 20 b/w ills. 26 x 21.6 cm.available Show more