Invisible Terrain
John Ashbery and the Aesthetics of Nature
In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), the American poet John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much of modern art: 'How could he explain to them his prayer / that nature, not art, might usurp the canvas?' When Ashbery asks this strange question, he joins a host of transatlantic avant-gardists-from the Dadaists to the 1960s neo-avant-gardists and beyond-who have dreamed of turning art into nature, of creating art that wouldbe 'valid solely on its own terms, in the way nature itself is valid, in the way a landscape-not its picture-is aesthetically valid' (Clement Greenberg, 1939). Invisible Terrain reads Ashber…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-251930-6
- EAN: 9780192519306
- Produktnummer: 29358917
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'217 KB
Über den Autor
Dr Stephen J. Ross earned his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2013. He is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, and from 2013-15 he was a Teaching Fellow in American Literature at the University of Warwick. He is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury Press), and is collaborating on the first complete translation and critical edition of Processions, the poetic masterpieceof the Yiddish American modernist Mikhl Likht. He publishes essays and reviews on modern and contemporary literature, and is a founding editor of the literary web-journal Wave Composition.
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