Foreman - The Manifestos and Essays

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Foreman, Richard, 1937

[Essays. Selections]

The manifestos and essays / Richard Foreman.First edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-55936-398-3 (trade paper)

ISBN 978-1-55936-652-6 (ebook)

I. Title.

PS3556.O7225A6 2013

814.54dc23

2013002064

Cover and book design and composition by Lisa Govan

Cover photograph by Anne Nordmann

First Edition, October 2013

(APRIL, 1972)

(JULY, 1974)

O ne always begins with the desire to write a certain kind of sentence (to put on stage a certain kind of gesture. That kind then turns out to be about that-which-becomes-your-content).

The key, however, is in this sentence (gesture) cell. Most people dont see the cell, are perceptually unable to see small enough (ephemeralization). Because their LIFE training is that to see small means to enter the realm where contradictions are seen to be at the root of realityand that disturbing realization they would avoid at all costs.