Art from start to finish : jazz, painting, writing, and other improvisations /
Becker, Howard Saul,1928-
Faulkner, Robert R.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2006.
The work itself / Howard S. Becker -- Profiles of the unfinished: Rodin's work and the varieties of incompleteness / Pierre-Michel Menger -- "How do I know I am Finnish?" the computer, the archive, the literary artist, and the work as social object / Michael Joyce -- Shedding culture / Robert R. Faulkner -- This is what I do / Scott Deveaux -- Grasping Shona musical works: a case study of Mbira music / Paul Berliner -- Economic analysis and steps toward completing the work / Richard E. Caves -- The fragment itself / Larry Gross -- Object/Shadows-notes on a developing art form / Larry Kagan -- "This is a stone from the endless beach": an interview with Max Gimblett / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Art works / Michael D. Harris -- Wallace Steven's jar / Bruce Jackson.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Aesthetics.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Arts and society.
Arts