Bad Writing

Travis Jeppesen

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Sternberg Press
17 September 2019

Theory of art

Essays that forge a path to a truly radical ""bad"" modernism in art and literature.

What, exactly, constitutes the ""bad""? Can one consciously produce in the name of ""badness,"" or is badness a value judgment that comes after the fact, from an Other? How does one begin to assign aesthetic value to an object? If one is to accept the ""bad"" as ""good,"" or to find aesthetic value in badness, then when does the bad succeed and when does it fail? If, pace Beckett, we are to embrace failure as an inevitable goal, then isn't it necessary to invent a new mode of criticism that accommodates this aesthetic reality?

Travis Jeppesen's Bad Writing offers a series of interconnected essays, many of which appear in print for the first time, forging a pathway for a truly radical ""bad"" modernism in art and literature. He explores the terrain of failure, assessing the situation of the twenty-first century literary avant-garde; considers the work of perennial outsiders; and offers ""ficto-criticisms,"" including his controversial, no-holds-barred takedown of the 2015 Venice Biennale, originally published in Art in America. Erudite, irreverent, witty, and occasionally controversial, Bad Writing reinvigorates the too-often staid medium of art criticism as an iconoclastic and inventive literary art form.

By: Travis Jeppesen
Imprint: Sternberg Press
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
ISBN: 9783956794100
ISBN 10: 3956794109
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 17 September 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Travis Jeppesen (born 1979) is an American novelist, poet, artist, and art critic currently based in Berlin. He is the author of The Suiciders (Semiotext(e)), Poems I Wrote while Watching TV, See You Again in Pyongyang, and other books.

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...a total pleasure to read.--TANK Magazine-- Travis Jeppesen's 'willful defiance of the commodification of art criticism' is not just necessary, it's outrageous. --Bruce Schawbsky, art critic for The Nation-- [Jeppesen]'s the Weird Al Yankovic of art criticism, but gayer. --Bruce Hainley, author of Under the Sign of [sic]: Sturtevant's Volte-Face--

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