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The Revolution in the Visual Arts and the Poetry of William Carlos Williams
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
The Revolution in the Visual Arts and the Poetry of William Carlos Williams
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Peter Halter
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Series | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:288 | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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Category/Genre | Literary studies - from c 1900 - Literary studies - poetry and poets |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780521102667
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Classifications | Dewey:811.52 |
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Audience | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | |
Illustrations |
21 Halftones, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
12 March 2009 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
The formation of Modernist literature took place in a cultural climate characterised by an unprecedented collaboration between painters, sculptors, writers, musicians and critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Within this multifaceted movement, William Carlos Williams is a paradigmatic case of a writer whose work was the result of a successful attempt at integrating ideas and concepts from the revolutionary visual arts. This book is a major step toward a fuller exploration of the connection between the visual arts and Williams' concept of the Modernist poem and of his achievement in transcending an art-for-art's-sake formalism to create poems which both reflect their own nature as a work of art and vividly evoke the world of that they are a part. As Williams' repeatedly stressed, 'It must not be forgot that we smell, hear and see with words and words alone and that with a new language we smell, hear and see afresh...'
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