The Edinburgh companion to Ezra Pound and the arts / edited by Roxana Preda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Preda, Roxana, Author.

Contributor:

Preda, Roxana, 1959- editor.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature.

Edinburgh companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Pound, Ezra.

Modernism (Art).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 547 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Showcases Ezra Pound’s close involvement with the arts throughout his careerThe present volume of new, interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the arts with which Pound had a lifelong interaction including architecture, ballet, cinema, music, painting, photography and sculpture. Divided into 5 historically and thematically arranged sections, the 28 chapters foreground the shifting significance of art forms throughout Pound’s life which he spent in London, Paris, Rapallo and Washington.The Companion maps Pound’s practices of engagement with the arts, deepening areas of study that have recently emerged, such as his musical compositions. At the same time, it opens up new fields, particularly Pound’s interaction with the performing arts: opera, dance, and cinema. The volume demonstrates overall that Ezra Pound was no mere spectator of the modernist revolution in the arts; rather he was an agent of change, a doer and promoter who also had a deep emotional response to the arts.Key Features:The first book to gather together all the different aspects of the subject of Pound and the artsChapters are devoted to topics never covered before: (cinema; political anarchism; early music; Agnes Bedford; the artists Munch, Lekakis, Martinelli, Frampton) Presents the ways Pound’s interests and activities in the arts change over time in a continuous story, from his beginnings to his old ageIncludes portraits of friendships and short biographies of artists connected to Pound, showing his personal impact in the arts world

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

A Brief Introduction

PART I FOUNDATIONS

1 ‘Mermaids, that Carving’: Ezra Pound and Italian Art

2 ‘TEMPLUM AEDIFICAVIT’: Ezra Pound and Architecture

3 Ezra Pound and East Asian Art

4 Ezra Pound and Old Music

5 Ezra Pound: Premier Danseur by Proxy

6 Time, Speed, Precision and the Poetry of the Everyday; or, Ezra Pound’s Cinema Aesthetic

PART II THE LONDON PERIOD 1908–1920

7 Ezra Pound and Nineteenth-Century Aestheticism: Sharing ‘Breath for Beauty and the Arts’ with Rossetti and Pater

8 Ezra Pound and James McNeill Whistler: Modernism and Conceptual Art

9 Ezra Pound and Walter Rummel

10 ‘Museum Pieces’: Laurence Binyon, Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts

11 Into the Vortex: Ezra Pound, Anarchism and the Ideological Project of Art Criticism

12 ‘Intelligence . . . Shut in by the Entrenched Forces of Stupidity’: Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis

13 Vorticist Photography, or The Three Angles of Ezra Pound and Alvin Langdon Coburn

14 ‘Creation and Action’: Ezra Pound and Italian Futurism

15 Ezra Pound and Wassily Kandinsky: Inner Necessity and the PARADISO TERRESTRE

16 Agnes Bedford: An Invisible Helpmate

PART III PARIS 1921–1924

17 Constantin Brâncuşi, Vorticist: Sculpture, Art Criticism, Poetry

18 Percussive Music for a Triangle: Ezra Pound’s Relationship with George Antheil and Olga Rudge

19 ‘Like Coins out of Circulation’: Reframing Ezra Pound’s LE TESTAMENT

20 Ezra Pound as Music Theorist: ANTHEIL AND THE TREATISE ON HARMONY

21 The Expansion of a Theory: Great Bass and BALLET MÉCANIQUE

22 Renaissance Man: Ezra Pound’s Search for a Contemporary Colour Palette Through His Solo Violin Works

PART IV THE ITALIAN YEARS 1925–1945

23 Ezra Pound’s Artistic Thinking and Relations in Italy, 1925–1945

24 Music Recollected: Ezra Pound’s CAVALCANTI

25 VIDA SIN FIN: Ezra Pound and Gerhart Münch

PART V WASHINGTON: MENTORING THE YOUNG IN THE 1950s

26 Sheri Martinelli: The White Goddess

27 Art ‘in the Solid’: Ezra Pound and Michael Lekakis

28 A ‘Transference of Power’: Ezra Pound and the Cinema of Hollis Frampton

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-2919-X

1-4744-2918-1

OCLC:

1312726572