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Modernism's other work : the art object's political life / Lisa Siraganian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siraganian, Lisa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Art in literature.
- Art objects in literature.
- Art and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Art and literature.
- Art--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Modernism's Other Work challenges deeply held critical beliefs about the meaning-in particular the political meaning-of modernism's commitment to the work of art as an object detached from the world. Ranging over works of poetry, fiction, painting, sculpture, and film, Lisa Siraganian persuasively argues that modernism's core aesthetic problem-the artwork's status as an object and a subject's relation to it-poses fundamental questions of agency, freedom, and politics. With fresh accounts of works by canonical figures such as William Carlos Williams and Marcel Duchamp, and transformative readin
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Meaning's Work; 1. Theorizing Art and Punctuation: Gertrude Stein's Breathless Poetry; 2. Satirizing Frameless Art: Wyndham Lewis's Defense of Representation; 3. Breaking Glass to Save the Frame: William Carlos Williams and Company; 4. Challenging Kitsch Equality: William Gaddis's and Elizabeth Bishop's "Neo" Rear-Guard Art; 5. Administering Poetic Breath for the People: Charles Olson and Amiri Baraka; 6. Coda: Universal Breath; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 5, 2012).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-020854-6
- 0-19-025526-9
- 9786613427359
- 0-19-979659-9
- 1-283-42735-4
- OCLC:
- 774276124
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