Criminal ingenuity : Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the struggle between the arts

Criminal ingenuity : Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the struggle between the arts / Ellen Levy.

"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 exp...

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Main Author: Levy, Ellen (Ellen Sue), 1957-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Modernist literature & culture.
Subjects:
Moore, Marianne, > 1887-1972 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ashbery, John, > 1927-2017 > Criticism and interpretation.
Cornell, Joseph > Criticism and interpretation.
Brainard, Joe, > 1942-1994 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ashbery, John, > 1927-2017
Brainard, Joe, > 1942-1994
Cornell, Joseph
Moore, Marianne, > 1887-1972
1900-2099
Art and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Art and society > United States > History > 21st century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 21st century.
POETRY > American > General.
Art and society
Literature and society
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxii, 260 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index.
ISBN:9780199813469
0199813469
9781283113441
1283113449
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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