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"An anthology of essays by such notables as W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and W.H. Auden offer their views on painting and works by such great painters as Picasso, Van Gogh, and Matisse." -- Amazon.com viewed January 25, 2021.
Author : J. D. McClatchy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520069714
"An anthology of essays by such notables as W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and W.H. Auden offer their views on painting and works by such great painters as Picasso, Van Gogh, and Matisse." -- Amazon.com viewed January 25, 2021.
Author : Robert D. Denham
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786456582
Ekphrasis, the description of pictorial art in words, is the subject of this bibliography. More specifically, some 2500 poems on paintings are catalogued, by type of publication in which they appear and by poet. Also included are 2000 entries on the secondary literature of ekphrasis, including works on sculpture, music, photography, film, and mixed media.
Author : Mary Jacobus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 069117072X
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: TWOMBLY'S BOOKS -- 1 MEDITERRANEAN PASSAGES: RETROSPECT -- 2 PSYCHOGRAM AND PARNASSUS: HOW (NOT) TO READ A TWOMBLY -- 3 TWOMBLY'S VAGUENESS: THE POETICS OF ABSTRACTION -- 4 ACHILLES' HORSES, TWOMBLY'S WAR -- 5 ROMANTIC TWOMBLY -- 6 THE PASTORAL STAIN -- 7 PSYCHE: THE DOUBLE DOOR -- 8 TWOMBLY'S LAPSE -- POSTSCRIPT: WRITING IN LIGHT -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Author : Jenni Quilter
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 0847837866
New York School Painters & Poets charts the collaborative milieu of New York City poets and artists in the mid-twentieth century. This unprecedented volume comprehensively reproduces rare ephemera, collecting and reprinting collaborations, paintings, drawings, poetry, letters, art reviews, photographs, dialogues, manifestos, and memories. Jenni Quilter offers a chronological survey of this milieu, which includes artists such as Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Alex Katz, Jasper Johns, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, George Schneeman, and Rudy Burckhardt, plus writers John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Edwin Denby, Larry Fagin, Frank O’Hara, Charles North, Ron Padgett, James Schuyler, Anne Waldman, and more. “Giving us for the first time a full picture of the scene these artists and writers shared,” writes Carter Ratcliff in his foreword, “this book illuminates the unities and tensions, the playfulness and glamour and startling authenticity of their collaborations. Here we not only see evidence of a modus operandi. We also feel the exuberance of a certain modus vivendi, a way of life.” By Jenni Quilter, Edited by Allison Power, with Advisory Editors: Bill Berkson and Larry Fagin, and Foreword by Carter Ratcliff.
Author : Frances Dickey
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813932696
In The Modern Portrait Poem, Frances Dickey recovers the portrait as a poetic genre from the 1860s through the 1920s. Combining literary and art history, she examines the ways Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Swinburne, and J. M. Whistler transformed the genre of portraiture in both painting and poetry. She then shows how their new ways of looking at and thinking about the portrait subject migrated across the Atlantic to influence Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell, E. E. Cummings, and other poets. These poets creatively exposed the Victorian portrait to new influences ranging from Manet’s realism to modern dance, Futurism, and American avant-garde art. They also condensed, expanded, and combined the genre with other literary modes including epitaph, pastoral, and Bildungsroman. Dickey challenges the tendency to view Modernism as a break with the past and as a transition from aural to visual orientation. She argues that the Victorian poets and painters inspired the new generation of Modernists to test their vision of Aestheticism against their perception of modernity and the relationship between image and text. In bridging historical periods, national boundaries, and disciplinary distinctions, Dickey makes a case for the continuity of this genre over the Victorian/Modernist divide and from Britain to the United States in a time of rapid change in the arts.
Author : Scott Gutterman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 3791354779
The world’s great poets interpret the world’s great art in this exquisite book that investigates the connection between art and words, deepening our understanding of both. The poet and the artist share a special kind of vision—an ability to see and penetrate the very essence of their subjects. This volume features poems by writers who turned to paintings for their inspiration, as well as paintings by artists who based their works on poems. Stretching across centuries and styles, this collection includes Rossetti’s haunting sonnet based on Botticelli’s Primavera; Wallace Stevens’s "The Man with the Blue Guitar," a masterful meditation on an iconic painting by Picasso; William Carlos Williams’s joyous interpretations of scenes by Breughel; and Adrienne Rich lending a compassionate voice to the subject of Edwin Romanzo Elmer’s The Mourning Chair. These and other pairings appear as elegant texts facing full page, glowing illustrations of the paintings. An introduction to some of the greatest poets and painters in history, this remarkable book makes a perfect gift, offering compelling insights into the worlds of art and literature, and the relationship between the two.
Author : Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802827284
The great Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh comes to life in a new light on the pages of this splendid volume. Through eloquent poetic meditations on Van Gogh's late paintings, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre shows how these artworks testify to divine presence, and she invites readers to find their way through form, color, and light into a new awareness of the Spirit. Some of McEntyre's poems remind us of the sorrows in the life of this solitary artist and of his infinite longing. Some convey Van Gogh's epiphanies of joy and energy, expressing themselves in color. McEntyre sees the paintings as inviting us to see things in a different light, and her poetry is an act of consent to that invitation, providing an intimate encounter with these great works. Evocatively pairing art and poetry on two-page spreads, The Color of Light is McEntyre's third in a trilogy of poetry books on Dutch master painters, each of which invites us to reflect not only on the artist's life and faith but also on our own.
Author : Alfreda Murck
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674007826
During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some of China's elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting. By examining literary archetypes, painting titles, contemporary inscriptions, and the historical context, Murck shows that certain paintings expressed strong political opinions--some transparent, others deliberately concealed.
Author : Trudy Overlock
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781882190492
Poetry and art of Maine and beyond illustrated in color with 18 of the poet's paintings. Trudy Overlock has a wide experience of life, from department store work on many levels to public relations to legal secretary and paralegal work to photo-colorist to private secretary for a Wall Street financier to minister's wife to advertising copywriter to mural and stage artist for dance studios to baker and supplier of pies to restaurants. Trudy was a professional vocalist, singing at a wide range of venues, from Maine's Lakewood Inn to the grandstand at the Skowhegan State Fair, with freebees singing for the Togus VA Medical Center and the Maine State Prison. She designed and had built the home where she raised her two stepsons; in Vassalboro she has established a gallery where a hundred of her paintings are on display in the eighteenth-century house she has restored and which is cited on the National Register of Historic Places.
Author : Marjorie Perloff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 1998-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226660592
Previously known as an art-world figure, but now regarded as an important poet, Frank O'Hara is examined in this study. It traces the poet's "French connection" and the influence of the visual arts on his work. This edition includes a new introduction with a reconsideration of O'Hara's lyric.