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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Table of 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.

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