Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism

Klappentext Ezra Pound was deeply engaged with the avant-garde art scene in London and Paris during the early twentieth century. The effects of this engagement were not restricted to experiments in poetic form! however; they directly shaped Pound's social and political thought. In this book Rebecca Beasley tracks Pound's education in visual culture in chapters that explore Pound's early poetry in the context of American aestheticism and middle-class education; imagism! anarchism and post-impressionist painting; vorticism and anti-democracy in early drafts of The Cantos; Dadaist conceptual art! internationalism and Pound's turn to Italian fascism. In establishing a critical vocabulary profoundly indebted to the visual arts! Pound laid the basis for a literary modernism that is! paradoxically! a visual culture. Drawing on unpublished archive materials and little known magazine contributions! this study makes an important contribution to our understanding of Pound's intellectual development and the relationship between modernist literature and the visual arts. Zusammenfassung Ezra Pound was deeply engaged with the avant-garde art scene in London and Paris. Drawing on previously unpublished archive materials and little-known magazine contributions! this 2007 study makes an important contribution to our understanding of Pound's intellectual development and the relationship between modernist literature and the visual arts. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. American aestheticism: the origins of an interdisciplinary modernism; 2. Imagism, vorticism, and the politics of criticism; 3. A visual poetics? From the first cantos to Mauberley; 4. Conceptual art and the rappel à l'ordre; Afterword; Index.

Auteur

Rebecca Beasley is Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Contenu
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. American aestheticism: the origins of an interdisciplinary modernism; 2. Imagism, vorticism, and the politics of criticism; 3. A visual poetics? From the first cantos to Mauberley; 4. Conceptual art and the rappel à l'ordre; Afterword; Index.