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A recognizable image : William Carlos Williams on art and artists / edited with an introduction and notes by Bram Dijkstra.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 W6762 978r
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963.
- Series:
- New Directions book
- A New Directions Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 268 pages, 41 unnumbered pages of of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : [New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin], [1978.]
- Contents:
- Prologue: Still lifes
- Vortex (1915)
- Some observations on artists and critics (1919-1920)
- Comment on Contact (1920-21)
- French painting (1928)
- Notes on art (1928)
- Art and politics: The editorship of Blast (1933)
- The neglected artist (1936)
- Revolutions revalued (1936)
- An afternoon with Tchelitchew (1937)
- Cache cache (1942)
- Effie Deans (c. 1937)
- Walker Evans: American photographs (1938)
- Charles Sheeler (1939)
- Charles Sheeler-postscript (1954)
- Marsden Hartley: 1940
- Beinnings: Marsden Hartley: 1948
- Marsden Hartley: 1956
- Midas (1941)
- The poet in Time of Confusion (1941)
- Axioms (1941)
- What of Alfred Stieglitz (1946)
- Woman as operator (1948)
- A letter, touching the Comintern, upon censorship in the arts (1948)
- Nicholas Calas's illumination of the significance of Hieronymous Bosch's The Garden of Delight
- The portrait: Emanuel Roman (1951)
- The broken vase
- The American spirit in art (1951)
- Notes on movements, artists, and issues: I. The visitor (c. 1944); II. Theory of excellence in the arts (c.1948); III. Picasso breaks faces (1950); IV. Art and social organization (1950); V. On the practical function of art (c.1951); VI. Alfred Eisenstaedt (1951); VII. Talks and readings, Hanover etc., April 1952; VIII. John Marin (1955); IX. Patrocinio Barela (1955); X. Henry Niese (1956); XI. Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Photograph (1960)
- E. E. Cummings's paintings and poems (1954)
- Painting in the American grain (1954)
- Brancusi (1955)
- Epilogue: The world contracted to a recognizable image.
- Notes:
- "First published clothbound by New Directions in 1978."
- Dustjacket has Self-Portrait (1918) by William Carlos Williams on front cover.
- "Design by Herman Strohbach."
- Contains sources (p. 257-268).
- Beige cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine. Black endpapers.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0811207048
- OCLC:
- 4004185
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