Criminal ingenuity: Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the struggle between the arts

Criminal Ingenuity offers both a history and a theory of the conflicted relation between poetry and painting in high and mid-century modernism, focusing onfigures like T.S. Eliot, Clement Greenberg, Marianne Moore, John Ashbery, andJoseph Cornell. INDICE: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter; I. BORROWING PAINTS FROM A GIRL: GREENBERG, ELIOT, MOORE; AND THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE ARTS; i. 'Academic feeling' vs. 'the museum'; ii. Moore between poetry and painting; iii. The professional, the academic, and 'the real poetry lover'; iv. What's in a name? Museum, market, art world; v. The end of Modernism As We Know It: poetry in the age of Pollock; vi. Self-critique and the struggle for dominance; II. 'NO POET HAS BEEN SO CHASTE': MOORE AND THE POETICS OF AMBIVALENCE; i. 'Institution' or 'enterprise'?; ii. The place of the token woman; iii. 'Unsheathed gesticulation': the attack of the token woman; iv. Moore's mirror phase: 'Those Various Scalpels'; v. The poetics of ambivalence; vi. The case for Moore's late 'love' lyrics; vii. Moore's imperishable wish: 'Armor's UnderminingModesty'; III. AN INCONSEQUENTIAL PAST: JOSEPH CORNELL AFTER; MARIANNE MOORE;i. Elephants and divas: Cornell's position, modernism's impasse; ii. The materialist and the monster: history according to Moore and; Benjamin; iii. Collage and class fractions; iv. Amateurs and aristocrats; v. The collector and the criminal: Cornell and Moore's imaginary economy; IV. SURREALISM IN 'THE SECOND, OPEN SENSE': THE POETS OF THE; NEW YORK SCHOOL; i. 'A confusion of painting with literature': Greenberg vs. the surrealists; ii. 'Stupid paintings' and 'old-fashioned literature': Ashbery's regressive; avant-garde; iii. Institutionsof freedom: the coterie and the art world; iv. 'Dear New York City Ballet, you are quite like a wedding yourself!':; institution as form in the poems of Frank O'Hara; V. 'A MEDIUM IN WHICH IT IS POSSIBLE TO RECOGNIZE ONESELF':; ASHBERY BETWEEN POETRY AND PAINTING; i. Breathing space: Ashbery in and out of the art world; ii. The adventures of 'the personality': 'Definition of Blue'; iii.The case of the fairy decorator: Robert Lowell and the New York School; iv. Cornell/ Parmigianino; v. Facing pages: The Vermont Notebook; WORKS CITED

• ISBN: 978-0-19-974635-4
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés