In Search Of The Third Bird av D. Graham Burnett, Catherine L. Hansen

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<b>The real history of the covey of attention-artists who call themselves "The Birds."</b><br><br>A great deal of uncertainty--and even some genuine confusion--surrounds the origin, evolution, and activities of the so-called <i>Avis Tertia</i> or "Order of the Third Bird." Sensational accounts of this "attentional cult" emphasize histrionic rituals, tragic trance-addictions, and the covert dissemination of obscurantist ontologies of the art object. Hieratic, ecstatic, and endlessly evasive, the Order attracts sensual misfits and cabalistic aesthetes--both to its ranks, and to its scholarship.<br><br>In recent years, however, the revisionist work of the research collective ESTAR(SER) has done much to clear the air, bringing archival precision to the history of this covey of attention-artists who call themselves "The Birds." Gathering the best articles of the last twenty years of <i>The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER)</i>, this volume represents a landmark in the history of aesthetic practices