David Breskin explains why the ghazal works to accompany Ed Ruscha’s art and Nels Cline’s music. “In the end, I felt that I was writing while wearing the world’s most luxurious set of fur-lined handcuffs.”
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Opening Out: DIRTY BABY, Part 1
“I want these books to open out instead of close down. I’ve got a library full of what I consider fantastic, successful art books, but the main modality of art books tends to be forensic. The art’s put on the table and it’s examined, and the experts come in and they tell you about it. They tell you what made the thing, brought it to life, who the parents were, what ultimately killed it.”