LOÏE, a magazine of dance, performance, and new media, has published a review by Karin Brygger of Douglas Rosenberg’s new book, “Staring at the Sky: Essays on Art and Culture.”
Brygger notes in her reflections that Rosenberg, a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in Art at UW–Madison, is most known for his pioneering work in the screendance world. With “Staring at the Sky,” however, Rosenberg “introduces his audience to another of his worlds,” she says, “one where art, art history, dance, the letter, pedagogy, nature and writing, merges into intellectual meditations that keeps crossing genre-boundaries.”
“To read ‘Staring at the Sky’,” she adds, “is also to read a fragmented memoir: we get to know what shaped this writer and from that we can put him together ourselves. This fusion is part of what makes me say this is a book to return to, the kind of book that calls you from the shelf.”
To learn more about “Staring at the Sky,” read Brygger’s full review. Also, check out our earlier Q&A with Rosenberg.