| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 260 pages) |
| Series |
Modernist literature & culture |
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Modernist literature & culture.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Credits; Series Editors' Foreword; Introduction; Abbreviations; 1. Borrowing Paints from a Girl: Greenberg, Eliot, Moore, and the Struggle Between the Arts; 2. "No Poet has been so Chaste": Moore and the Poetics of Ambivalence; 3. An Inconsequential Past: Joseph Cornell after Marianne Moore; 4. Surrealism in "the second, open sense": The Poets of the New York School; 5. "A medium in which it is possible to recognize Oneself ": Ashbery between Poetry and Painting; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
"Poetry was declining/ Painting advancing/ we were complaining/ it was '50," recalled poet Frank O'Hara in 1957. Criminal Ingenuity traces a series of linked moments in the history of this transfer of cultural power from the sphere of the word to that of the image. Ellen Levy explores the New York literary and art worlds in the years that bracket O'Hara's lament through close readings of the works and careers of poets Marianne Moore and John Ashbery and assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. In the course of these readings, Levy discusses such topics as the American debates around surreal |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Cornell, Joseph -- Criticism and interpretation
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Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 fast |
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Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994 fast |
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Cornell, Joseph fast |
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Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 fast |
| Subject |
Art and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Art and society -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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Art and society
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Literature and society
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010032530 |
| ISBN |
9780199813469 |
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0199813469 |
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9781283113441 |
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1283113449 |
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