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Savage Sight/Constructed Noise: Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American Avant-Gardes

Savage Sight/Constructed Noise: Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American Avant-Gardes

Sweet, David Lehardy

Paperback

Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu, Book 276

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0807892815
ISBN13: 9780807892817
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Dec 15 2003
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.42
Language: English

This book examines poetic adaptations of painterly techniques in works by writers such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, André Breton, Frank O'Hara, and John Ashbery -- all chosen for the experimentalism of their poetry as well as for the quality of their critical writings on art. Close attention is paid to essays on painters identified with Cubism, Futurism, and Dada-Surrealism in France and with Abstract Expressionism and New Realism in the United States.

Selected poems are examined in light of the critical essays and are taken either as illustrations of a new plastic poetic or as novel hybrids of plastic and literary strategies. Although the parallels between modern poetry and painting go beyond avant-garde techniques, this book emphasizes such innovations as collage, chance operations, and automatism to demonstrate the shift in aesthetic attention from finished products to creative processes.

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