Planets on Tables

Planets on Tables

AngličtinaEbook
Costello, Bonnie
Cornell University Press
EAN: 9781501727047
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Poets have long been drawn to the images and techniques of still life. Artists and poets alike present intimate worlds where time is suspended in the play of form and color and where history disappears amid everyday things. The genre of still life with its focus on the domestic sphere seemed to some a retreat from the political and economic pressures of the last century. Yet many American artists and writers found in the arrangement of local objects a way to connect the individual to larger public concerns. Indeed, the debates over still life reveal just what is at stake in the long-standing quarrel over poetry's meaning and usefulness. By exploring literary works of still life by Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, and Richard Wilbur-as well as the art of Joseph Cornell-the eminent critic Bonnie Costello considers how exchanges between the arts help to establish vital thresholds between the personal and public realms. In her view, Stevens and Williams bring the turmoil of history into their struggle for local aesthetic order; Bishop &quote;studies history&quote; in the intimate objects and arrangements she finds in her travels; Cornell, an artist inspired by poetry and loved by poets, links his dream boxes to contemporary events; and Richard Wilbur seeks to mend a broken postwar world within the hospitable spheres of art and home. In Planets on Tables, Costello describes a period when some of America's greatest poets and artists found in still life a way to &quote;contemplate the good in the midst of confusion,&quote; to bring the distant near, and to resist-rather than escape-the pressures of their times.
EAN 9781501727047
ISBN 1501727044
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavatel Cornell University Press
Datum vydání 5. července 2018
Stránky 224
Jazyk English
Země Uruguay
Autoři Costello, Bonnie
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