Author: Ian Hamilton FinlayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Telegrams from My Windmill Ian Hamilton Finlay
Author: Ian Hamilton FinlayTelegrams from My Windmill
Author: Ian Hamilton FinlayTelegrams from My Windmill
Author: Ian Hamilton FinlayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Door to the River
Author: Aram SaroyanPublisher: Black Sparrow Books
ISBN: 1567923968
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
So begins Aram Saroyan's essay, Occupation: Writer, about his vocation, the sixties generation, and emerging from the shadow of his father, the American novelist and playwright, William Saroyan. In this essay and others, Saroyan's subject is America's cultural inheritance, not only the development of the American literary tradition, with additional forays into art and music, but also America's political landscape and the responsibilities attendant upon independent writers to speak out against injustice and the abuse of power. From astute assessments and appreciations of artists and writers such as Charles Mingus, Andy Warhol, and Joan Didion to op-ed pieces written in the wake of 9/11, Saroyan's essays are engaging and make for good companionship, as Jack Kerouac insisted good books must do.
Contemporary British Poetry
Author: James AchesonPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791494217
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Devoted to close readings of poets and their contexts from various postmodern perspectives, this book offers a wide-ranging look at the work of feminists and "post feminist" poets, working class poets, and poets of diverse cultural backgrounds, as well as provocative re-readings of such well-established and influential figures as Donald Davie, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Craig Raine. Contributors include many respected theorists and critics, such as Antony Easthope, C.L. Innes, John Matthias, Edward Larrissy, Linda Anderson, Eric Homberger, Alastair Niven, R.K. Meiners, and Cairns Craig, in addition to new writers working from new theoretical perspectives. Their approaches range from cultural theory to poststructuralism; each essayist addresses a general audience while engaging in debates of interest to postgraduates and specialists in the fields of twentieth-century poetry and cultural studies. The book's strength lies in its diversity at every level.
Abstraction in Post-War British Literature 1945-1980
Author: Natalie FerrisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192594125
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
In a catalogue note for the 1965 exhibition 'Between Poetry and Painting' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the poet Edwin Morgan probed the relationship between abstraction and literature: 'Abstract painting can often satisfy, but "abstract poetry" can only exist in inverted commas'. Language may be fragmented, rearranged, or distorted, abstract in so far as it is withdrawn from a particular system of knowledge, but Morgan was of the mind that to be wholly 'disruptive' was to deprive a poem of its 'point' as an 'object of contemplation'. Whilst abstract art may have come to fulfil or or fortify an impression of post-war taste, abstraction in literature continued to be treated with suspicion. But how does this speak to the extent to which Britain's literary culture was responsive to progress compared to its artistic culture? Abstraction in Post-War British Literature 1945-1980 traces a line of literary experimentation in post-war British literature that was prompted by the aesthetic, philosophical and theoretical demands of abstraction. Spanning the period 1945 to 1980, it observes the ways in which certain aesthetic advancements initiated new forms of literary expression to posit a new genealogy of interdisciplinary practice in Britain. At a time in which Britain became conscious of its evolving identity within an increasingly globalised context, this study accounts for the range of Continental and Transatlantic influences in order to more accurately locate the networks at play. Exploring the contributions made by individuals, such as Herbert Read, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Christine Brooke- Rose, as well as by groups of practitioners. It brings a wide range of previously unexplored archival material into the public domain and offers a comprehensive account of the evolving status of abstraction across cultural, institutional, and literary contexts.
Ian Hamilton Finlay & the Wild Hawthorn Press, 1958-1991
Author: Ian Hamilton FinlayPublisher:
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Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Border Blurs
Author: Greg ThomasPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1789624444
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This book considers the relationship between English and Scottish poets and the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s-1970s, focusing on the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Edwin Morgan, Dom Sylvester Houédard and Bob Cobbing. It will be a vital resource for students and scholars of modernism, intermedia art and British literature.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Author: Ian Hamilton FinlayPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520950003
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in the international avant-garde of the 1960s.
The Order of Things
Author: Ken CockburnPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"The Order of Things presents the work of Scottish concrete and sound poets within a national and international perspective. Concrete poetry has been called the last great episode of Modernism. It was a world-wide movement, born in Switzerland and Brazil in the 1950s, which continued the dynamic experiments of Futurism, Dada and Constructivism in poetry. Contributors include Edwin Morgan, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Tom Leonard."--Publisher's description.