Abstraction in Post-War British Literature 1945-1980
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press USA - OSO
Place of publication:
Oxford
Date:
2022
Extent, illustration, format:
1 online resource (239 pages)
Language:
Englisch
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Abstract:
Abstraction in Post-War British Literature explores the ways in which writers and thinkers responded to non-representational art in the decades following the Second World War. By offering a chronological overview of the period in Britain, it questions how abstraction came to be discovered, absorbed and reimagined in literature.
Cover -- Abstraction in Post- War British Literature 1945-1980 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: A 'World Out of Gear': The Question of Abstraction in Post- War Britain -- 1: Visual Signs: Abstraction, Poetry, and The Pope of Modern Art -- 'Vocal Illyrian Avowals': Herbert Read, T. S. Eliot, and the 'Flashes of the Old Fire -- A Preoccupation with Art: 'Vocal Avowals' (1959) and Worte sagen aus (1962) -- An Unexpected Harbour: Herbert Read and 'Superrealism -- Poet, Painter, and Propagandist: Ben Nicholson and the 'Poetic Idea' -- Art as a Symbolic Language: Herbert Read, Susanne Langer, and 'Non- vocal Sign -- Emphases and Ellipses: Worte sagen aus and Abstract Mimicry -- Ekphrasis and the 'Vocal Avowals': The Revisions of 1966 -- 'I Just Need a Fiction Like You to Work Out Ideas in Front of-No?': Towards a New Mode of Expression -- 2: A New Cohesive Element: Abstract Art and the Abolition of Syntax -- Between Poetry and Painting: A Concrete Revolution -- MmM: The Murmurings of Earlier Modernisms in Ian Hamilton Finlay -- Squaring the Syntax: Early Concrete Poetry -- Direction, Movement, and Optics in Concrete Poetry -- An Ambivalent Geometry: The Influence of Josef Albers -- Meeting at a Tango: The Mechanics of Perception and the One- Word Poems -- 3: Objects, Concepts, Installations, Bookworks: Literature in an Expanding Field -- Today We Have Naming of Parts': From Object to Process to Concept -- 'The Gallery Becomes an Extended Bookshelf': The Bookwork Phenomenon -- Elaborating a Manner: Between Maximalism and Minimalism -- A Second Order Discourse: Language as the 'Ultimate Artistic Abstraction' -- The Page and the Wall: Literature in an Expanded Field -- 4: 'Seeing Comes before Words': New Frames of Perception on Page and Screen.
Cover -- Abstraction in Post- War British Literature 1945-1980 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: A 'World Out of Gear': The Question of Abstraction in Post- War Britain -- 1: Visual Signs: Abstraction, Poetry, and The Pope of Modern Art -- 'Vocal Illyrian Avowals': Herbert Read, T. S. Eliot, and the 'Flashes of the Old Fire -- A Preoccupation with Art: 'Vocal Avowals' (1959) and Worte sagen aus (1962) -- An Unexpected Harbour: Herbert Read and 'Superrealism -- Poet, Painter, and Propagandist: Ben Nicholson and the 'Poetic Idea' -- Art as a Symbolic Language: Herbert Read, Susanne Langer, and 'Non- vocal Sign -- Emphases and Ellipses: Worte sagen aus and Abstract Mimicry -- Ekphrasis and the 'Vocal Avowals': The Revisions of 1966 -- 'I Just Need a Fiction Like You to Work Out Ideas in Front of-No?': Towards a New Mode of Expression -- 2: A New Cohesive Element: Abstract Art and the Abolition of Syntax -- Between Poetry and Painting: A Concrete Revolution -- MmM: The Murmurings of Earlier Modernisms in Ian Hamilton Finlay -- Squaring the Syntax: Early Concrete Poetry -- Direction, Movement, and Optics in Concrete Poetry -- An Ambivalent Geometry: The Influence of Josef Albers -- Meeting at a Tango: The Mechanics of Perception and the One- Word Poems -- 3: Objects, Concepts, Installations, Bookworks: Literature in an Expanding Field -- Today We Have Naming of Parts': From Object to Process to Concept -- 'The Gallery Becomes an Extended Bookshelf': The Bookwork Phenomenon -- Elaborating a Manner: Between Maximalism and Minimalism -- A Second Order Discourse: Language as the 'Ultimate Artistic Abstraction' -- The Page and the Wall: Literature in an Expanded Field -- 4: 'Seeing Comes before Words': New Frames of Perception on Page and Screen.
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Universität Erfurt
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
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2023-04-12
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