Frank O'Hara's New York School and mid-century mannerism : perfectly disgraceful / Sam Ladkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ladkin, Sam, author.

Series:

Oxford mid-century studies.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford mid-century studies

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966--Criticism and interpretation.

O'Hara, Frank.

O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966--Influence.

Art--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Art.

Arts--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

A ground-breaking account of the poet Frank O'Hara and the extraordinary cultural blossoming O'Hara catalysed, namely the mid-century experimental and multi-disciplinary arts scene, the New York School.

Contents:

The Paragone of the New York School

Introduction: New York School Mannerisms

Mannerism

The Interdisciplinary Rhetoric of Maniera

A Genealogy of Rhetoric

Chapter Summaries

1. Sprezzatura: Diligent Negligence

You Just Go on Your Nerve

The Renaissance of Sprezzatura

Disgrace

Difficulty

The Difficulty of Death

The Difficulty of Love: Lost Time

The Difficulty of Love: Distraction

The Difficulty of Love: Disquiet

The Art of Diligent Negligence

Injudicious Affectation

Denoting Camp

Sprezzatura and Race: 'The Successful Syndrome of the Cool'

2. Grace: 'Joyous Irony in Tenderest Pathos'

In Public, In Private

A Step Away from Them

The Consubstantiation of Grace

Elegy

Balanchine's Poetics

The Flight of the Dancer: The Transcendental

Bach in Bathing Suits: The Constructivist

Balanchine's Elephant Ballet: The Vernacular

Some Thoughts About Classicism and George Balanchine

A Genealogy of Grace

Unconscious Grace and Grace of Irony

3. Agon: 'The Energy of Contradictory Actions'

Three Moments of Agonism: Classical, Mannerist, and Mid-Century

Renato Poggioli's Avant-GardeAgon

Nietzsche's Agon

Agonal Communities of Taste

The New York School of the 1930s

The Pindaric

Three Sides of 'Ode to Willem de Kooning'

4. Figura Serpentinata: 'And Now it is the Serpent's Turn'

Figura Serpentinata

Queer Figures

The Cancerous Statue

The Serpent

Rhetorical Turns

5. Frank Speech: 'The Living Ought to be Alive in Every Part'

Ornate Poetics

Paul Valéry: The Order of the Serpent

Frank Speech.

Explosive Grief and Anger

The Sun's Motto

To Hell with Content

Apostrophe or Invocation

'It'

6. Marvellous: 'Remember Life's Marvellous'

Forms in Motion and in Thought

The Prosody of 'Ode to Joy'

The Poetry of 'Ode to Joy'

The Mannerist Sublime

Where Air Is Flesh

Ode on Causality

Our Tempestuous Rights

Coca-ColaCarpe Diem

Conclusion: 'Style at its Highest Ebb is Personality'

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 24, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

0-19-269204-6

0-19-195763-1

0-19-269203-8

OCLC:

1418848384