Earthquakes and explorations : language and painting from cubism to concrete poetry / Stephen Scobie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scobie, Stephen, author.

Series:

Theory/culture series.

Theory / Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cubism and literature.

Art and literature.

Painting, Modern--20th century.

Painting, Modern.

Concrete poetry--History and criticism.

Concrete poetry.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 1997.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The author's concern is both with a general theoretical question - the relationship between painting and poetry, between the visual and the verbal - and with a specific period of artistic history - the early years of the twentieth century, when Cubism flourished. Rather than seeing any conflict or irreconcilable division between painting and poetry, Scobie proposes, as a model for their relation, the Derridean notion of 'the supplement.' This relation is grounded in the pervasiveness of language, in the ways in which language surrounds, imbues, structures, and supplements both verbal and nonverbal images.

Contents:

The supplement of language

'We are a man': the narrativization of painting

Apollinaire and the naming of Cubism

The gospel according to Kahnweiler

The semiotics of Cubism

Metaphor and metonymy in Cubism and Gertrude Stein

The window frame: Delaunay and Apollinaire

Signs of the times

Gadji Beri Bimba: abstraction in poetry

Models of order: Ian Hamilton Finlay.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-6486-X

OCLC:

944178595