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No Medium
0262018705 epub Close readings of ostensibly blank worksfrom unprinted pages to silent musicthat point to a new understanding of media. In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothing to say. Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, literature, and music point to a new understanding of media and the limits of the artistic object. Dworkin considers works predicated on blank sheets of paper, from a fictional collection of poems in Jean Cocteau's Orphe to the actual publication of a ream of typing paper as a book of poetry he compares Robert Rauschenberg's