He is the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation (1967), Pulitzer Foundation (1965), the DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm (1981–1983), Vogelstein Foundation (1980), Fund for Investigative Journalism (1981), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2001), CCLM (1981), ASCAP (1983 annually to the present), American Public Radio Program Fund (1984), and the National Endowment for the Arts with ten individual awards (1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991). He also assumed production residencies at the Electronic Music Studio of Stockholm, Experimental TV Center (Owego, NY), Mishkenot Sha'ananim (Jerusalem), and the MIT Media Lab.
Worksedit
Kostelanetz came onto the literary scene with essays in quarterlies such as Partisan Review and The Hudson Review, then profiles of older artists, musicians and writers for The New York Times Magazine; these profiles were collected in Master Minds (1969).[2]
His book The End of Intelligent Writing: Literary Politics in America (1974) caused considerable controversy.[3][4][5][6][7][8]SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony (2003) chronicles cultural life in New York City in the late 20th century. In 1967, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest," vowing to refuse to pay taxes raised to fund the Vietnam War.[9]
Books of his radically alternative fiction include In the Beginning (1971) (the alphabet arranged in single and double letter combinations), Short Fictions (1974), More Short Fictions (1980, and Furtherest Fictions (2007)); of his mostly visual poetry, Visual Language (1970), I Articulations (1974), Wordworks (1993), and More Wordworks (2006).
Among the anthologies he has edited are On Contemporary Literature (1964, 1969), Beyond Left & Right (1968), John Cage (1970, 1991), Moholy-Nagy (1970),[10]Breakthrough Fictioneers (1973), Scenarios (1980), Text-Sound Texts (1980),[11]Social Speculation: Visions for Our Time (1971),[12] and The Literature of SoHo (1981).
Kostelanetz also edited Virgil Thompson: A Reader - Selected Writings 1924-1984 (2002)[13] and Aaron Copland: A Reader - Selected Writings 1923-1972 (2003).[14]
Among his literary contemporaries, Richard Kostelanetz has also produced literature in audio, video, holography, prints, book-art, computer-based installations, among other new media. Though he coined the term "polyartist" to characterize people who excel at two or more nonadjacent arts, he considers that, since nearly all his creative work incorporates language or literary forms, it represents Writing reflecting polyartistry. "Wordsand" (1978–81) was a traveling early retrospective of his work in several media.[17][18]
Bibliographyedit
"A Critical Look at the Critics", Twentieth Century ( essay, Spring 1966)
The Theatre of Mixed Means (1968)
Master Minds (1969)
Visual Language (1970)
In the Beginning (1971, novel)
Recyclings, Volume One (1974)
The End of Intelligent Writing: Literary Politics in America (1974, criticism)
^Directory of American Scholars, 6th ed. (Bowker, 1974), Vol. I, p. 350.
^Yardley, Rosemary (October 26, 1969). "Fourteen Of America's Eggiest Heads". Greensboro News and Record. p. B4. Retrieved April 17, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Kirsch, Robert (December 5, 1974). "Corrupting the Literary Politics of America". Los Angeles Times. p. IV-19. Retrieved April 17, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Thompson, Francis J. (November 24, 1974). "Muggers Among the Literati". Minneapolis Tribune. p. 5-C. Retrieved April 17, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Tuttle, Lisa (February 16, 1975). "They Wouldn't Neglect the Art". Austin American-Statesman. p. 41. Retrieved April 17, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Henkel, Wayne J. (February 16, 1975). "Peeling the New York literary onion". Baltimore Sun. p. D-5. Retrieved April 17, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Kirk, Russell (March 24, 1975). "Trouble faced by book trade". Daily Advance (Lynchburg, Virginia). p. 6. Retrieved April 17, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Rotov, Dimitri (February 2, 1975). "'End of Intelligent Writing' presents author's accusations". Columbus (Georgia) Ledger. p. B-6. Retrieved April 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^McNay, Michael (May 30, 1974). "Art(s) history on the wing". The Guardian (London). p. 10. Retrieved April 17, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Gabree, John (May 4, 1980). "New and Notable". Newsday. p. 16-Ideas. Retrieved April 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Jackson, Marni (February 6, 1971). "Current Titles: As thinkers see the world". Toronto Star. p. 65. Retrieved April 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Simon, Jeff (September 8, 2002). "Editor's Choice". Buffalo News. p. H-7. Retrieved April 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Stepanich, Greg (January 11, 2004). "Deserved fanfare for a very uncommon man". The State (Columbia, South Carolina). p. E5. Retrieved April 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Editors and Staff". Liberty Foundation. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
^"Humanist Manifesto II". American Humanist Association. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012. Retrieved October 15, 2012.
^Cochran, Bente Roed (October 14, 1978). "Imagery of symbols created in exhibit". Edmondton Journal. p. C5. Retrieved April 17, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Kohen, Helen L. (October 10, 1980). "Variety Adds Spice at Campus Shows". Miami Herald. pp. 1D, 14D. Retrieved April 17, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Baker, Phil (April 5, 1994). "Review of "Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes"". The Guardian (London). p. 2:14. Retrieved April 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
External linksedit
Biography portal
Britannica Online Encyclopedia – Richard Kostelanetz
The Fales Library Guide to the Richard Kostelanetz Papers
RichardKostelanetz.com
Pulley Press: Richard Kostelanetz
Richard Kostelanetz Bibliography
Deep Listening Catalogue: Richard Kostelanetz
Poem by Richard Kostelanetz in Shampoo Issue 14
Collected Stories – A Word with the Writer Richard Kostelanetz by D. Albanese (2001)
Richard Kostelanetz: experimental prose – Epiphanies
Microstories by Richard Kostelanetz in Gander Press Review[dead link]
Openings and (Complete) Shorter Stories by Richard Kostelanetz in The Cafe Irreal