A Barry Brickell reader
Subtitle: selected meditations, decrees and 'wrertings', outbursts, diversions
By: edited and introduced by Gregory O'Brien ; photographs by Haru Sameshima ; afterword by David Craig
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa in association with Rim Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780947493349
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Political and social views; Potters
Description: "A Barry Brickell Reader illuminates not the pottery Barry Brickell is known for, but another facet of his genius: his 'wrertings'. Reflecting the extrusions, bulges, crevasses and bobbles, his poetry -- like his pots -- can be mildly offensive, but they contain the same virtues Barry associated with rail travel: sensuality, rhythm, vibration and warmth. Here, Barry's great creative output is laid out expansively, accompanied by a photoessay of Barry doing what he did best: working"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: Machine-generated contents note: The real me; title: READING BARRY BRICKELL / Gregory O'Brien; title: Asylum; title: Dictatorial; title: Living in Coromandel; title: The potter; title: Artist, engineer, what?; title: Kikowhakarere; title: Ghost; title: True intelligence; title: The shore; title: Peopillics versus thingics; title: The clean & green; title: Bureaucracy; title: A form of spontaneous combustion; title: A suggestion; title: My paintings; title: Insulation; title: A caterwauling cant; title: `On the nature of art'; title: The institute of coarse arts, and working things out yourself; title: Boredom; title: McCahon; title: Institutions; title: Fairburn; title: Cure; title: Currents; title: Enigmatics and aphorisms; title: Nest; title: Dad; title: Like ...; title: Craft of living; title: Listen, speak; title: Nearing seventy-seven; title: The gasworks; title: Gas; title: Cold winter's day; title: Enough; title: Complaint; title: An asset; title: `Jesus went by rail' and other lessons What is art?; title: Youth versus age; title: Doggerel; title: Three persons 'or Helen TOT Mokemoke (Lonely) Bay; title: Chicken; title: The Treaty; title: Comments; title: Gasular doggerel no Apology Artist; title: Departures from the accepted norm Want; title: Poet; title: From some thoughts, September 2012; title: Educashin; title: Pure art; title: As a failed sportsman i; title: Waddya know?; title: National's new conservation plan; title: A contrivance; title: Three-in-one; title: Youthful delusions; title: Millionaire; title: Switch; title: Age; title: My-power; title: 9 July 2015; title: As a failed sportsman it; title: Digging art; title: Billy Apple; title: The blackberry bush; title: Spark; title: The cross; title: The word bender; title: Chemo; title: The bedroom; title: Life on earth; title: Envoi; title: Hole; title: Generator; title: Self-portrait, August 2003; title: AFTERWORD: WELCOME TO THE SUPER-SHANTY, DRIVING CREEK RAILWAY AND POTTERY / David Craig; title: ON PHOTOGRAPHING BARRY BRICKELL / Haru Sameshima.