The New York School Poets And The Neo Avant Garde

Author : Mark Silverberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317022664

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The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant-Garde by Mark Silverberg Pdf

New York City was the site of a remarkable cultural and artistic renaissance during the 1950s and '60s. In the first monograph to treat all five major poets of the New York School-John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler-Mark Silverberg examines this rich period of cross-fertilization between the arts. Silverberg uses the term 'neo-avant-garde' to describe New York School Poetry, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, Happenings, and other movements intended to revive and revise the achievements of the historical avant-garde, while remaining keenly aware of the new problems facing avant-gardists in the age of late capitalism. Silverberg highlights the family resemblances among the New York School poets, identifying the aesthetic concerns and ideological assumptions they shared with one another and with artists from the visual and performing arts. A unique feature of the book is Silverberg's annotated catalogue of collaborative works by the five poets and other artists. To comprehend the coherence of the New York School, Silverberg demonstrates, one must understand their shared commitment to a reconceptualized idea of the avant-garde specific to the United States in the 1950s and '60s, when the adversary culture of the Beats was being appropriated and repackaged as popular culture. Silverberg's detailed analysis of the strategies the New York School poets used to confront the problem of appropriation tells us much about the politics of taste and gender during the period, and suggests new ways of understanding succeeding generations of artists and poets.

Author : William Watkin
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0838754678

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In the Process of Poetry by William Watkin Pdf

"This is the first major theoretical study of the four main figures of the New York School: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. Proposing a reinterpretation of the definition of the avant-garde, William Watkin describes it as a movement typified by its commitment to art in process, over the final art product. In a series of in-depth, and wide-reaching, readings, he then goes on to test this assertion in detailed relation to the poetry of the New York School, while also examining how the poets' own work further develops and analyses the concept of the avant-garde in contemporary culture."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Mark Silverberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317022657

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The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant-Garde by Mark Silverberg Pdf

New York City was the site of a remarkable cultural and artistic renaissance during the 1950s and '60s. In the first monograph to treat all five major poets of the New York School-John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler-Mark Silverberg examines this rich period of cross-fertilization between the arts. Silverberg uses the term 'neo-avant-garde' to describe New York School Poetry, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, Happenings, and other movements intended to revive and revise the achievements of the historical avant-garde, while remaining keenly aware of the new problems facing avant-gardists in the age of late capitalism. Silverberg highlights the family resemblances among the New York School poets, identifying the aesthetic concerns and ideological assumptions they shared with one another and with artists from the visual and performing arts. A unique feature of the book is Silverberg's annotated catalogue of collaborative works by the five poets and other artists. To comprehend the coherence of the New York School, Silverberg demonstrates, one must understand their shared commitment to a reconceptualized idea of the avant-garde specific to the United States in the 1950s and '60s, when the adversary culture of the Beats was being appropriated and repackaged as popular culture. Silverberg's detailed analysis of the strategies the New York School poets used to confront the problem of appropriation tells us much about the politics of taste and gender during the period, and suggests new ways of understanding succeeding generations of artists and poets.

Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780385495332

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The Last Avant-Garde by David Lehman Pdf

A landmark work of cultural history that tells the story of how four young poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, reinvented literature and turned New York into the art capital of the world. Greenwich Village, New York, circa 1951. Every night, at a rundown tavern with a magnificent bar called the Cedar Tavern, an extraordinary group or painters, writers, poets, and hangers-on arrive to drink, argue, tell jokes, fight, start affairs, and bang out a powerful new aesthetic. Their style is playful, irreverent, tradition-shattering, and brilliant. Out of these friendships, and these conversations, will come the works of art and poetry that will define New York City as the capital of world culture--abstract expressionism and the New York School of Poetry. A richly detailed portrait of one of the great movements in American arts and letters, The Last Avant-Garde covers the years 1948-1966 and focuses on four fast friends--the poets Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch. Lehman brings to vivid life the extraordinary creative ferment of the time and place, the relationship of great friendship to art, and the powerful influence that a group of visual artisits--especially Jane Freilicher, Larry Rivers, and Fairfield Porter--had on the literary efforts of the New York School. The Last Avant-Garde is both a definitive and lively view of a quintessentially American aesthetic and an exploration of the dynamics of creativity.

Author : M. Silverberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137280572

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New York School Collaborations by M. Silverberg Pdf

Ranging from conceptual theater to visual poetry the New York School explored the possibilities of collaboration like no other group of American poets. New York School Collaborations gathers essays from a diverse group of scholars on the alliances and artistic co-productions of New York School poets, painters, musicians, and film-makers.

Author : Terence Diggory
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1921 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9781438140667

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Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets by Terence Diggory Pdf

Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of poets associated with the New York Schools of the early twentieth century.

Author : Mae Losasso
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031415203

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Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School by Mae Losasso Pdf

Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School: Something Like a Liveable Space examines the relationship between poetics and architecture in the work of the first generation New York School poets, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, and James Schuyler. Reappraising the much-debated New York School label, Mae Losasso shows how these writers constructed poetic spaces, structures, surfaces, and apertures, and sought to figure themselves and their readers in relation to these architextual sites. In doing so, Losasso reveals how the built environment shapes the poetic imagination and how, in turn, poetry alters the way we read and inhabit architectural space. Animated by archival research and architectural photographs, Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School marks a decisive interdisciplinary turn in New York School studies, and offers new frameworks for thinking about postmodern American poetry in the twenty-first century.

Author : Mark Andrew Silverberg
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0612606686

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Beyond Radical Art [microform]: the New York School Poets and the Neo-avant-garde by Mark Andrew Silverberg Pdf

Author : Philip Auslander
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015019663403

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The New York School Poets as Playwrights by Philip Auslander Pdf

The New York School Poets as Playwrights is a critical introduction to a little-known body of drama by four preeminent American poets. In this interdisciplinary study, Philip Auslander draws on the methods of art history, theatre history, and literary criticism. He argues that the plays reflect the transition that occurred within the New York School in the 1950s and 1960s, when the dominant Abstract Expressionist sensibility was being undermined by the Pop Art sensibility. He goes on to show that the plays anticipated the tone of American art and theatre of later decades, including the Off-Off-Broadway movement of the 1960s, and postmodernism.

Author : Yasmine Shamma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192536204

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Spatial Poetics by Yasmine Shamma Pdf

What is the relationship between the spaces we inhabit and the spaces we create? Does living in a messy downtown New York City apartment automatically translate to writing a messy New York School poem? This volume addresses the 'environment' of the urban apartment, illuminating the relationship between the structures of New York City apartments and that of New York School poems. It utilizes the lens of urban and spatial theory to widen the possibilities afforded by New Critical and reader-response readings of this postmodern American poetry. In drawing this connection between consciousness and form, it draws on various senses of the environment as informing influence, inviting avant-garde American poetry to be reconsidered as uniquely organic in its responsiveness to its surroundings. Focusing exclusively and comprehensively on Second Generation New York School poetry, this is the first book-length study to attend to the poetry of this postmodern American movement, encouraging American poetry scholars to resituate New York School poetry within larger critical narratives of postmodern innovation.

Author : Terence Diggory
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438119052

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Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets by Terence Diggory Pdf

An A-to-Z reference to writers of the New York School, including John Ashbery, who is often considered America's greatest living poet. Examines significant movements in literary history and its development through the years.

Author : Stephen J. Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192519306

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Invisible Terrain by Stephen J. Ross Pdf

In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), the American poet John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much of modern art: 'How could he explain to them his prayer / that nature, not art, might usurp the canvas?' When Ashbery asks this strange question, he joins a host of transatlantic avant-gardists—from the Dadaists to the 1960s neo-avant-gardists and beyond—who have dreamed of turning art into nature, of creating art that would be 'valid solely on its own terms, in the way nature itself is valid, in the way a landscape—not its picture—is aesthetically valid' (Clement Greenberg, 1939). Invisible Terrain reads Ashbery as a bold intermediary between avant-garde anti-mimeticism and the long western nature poetic tradition. In chronicling Ashbery's articulation of 'a completely new kind of realism' and his engagement with figures ranging from Wordsworth to Warhol, the book presents a broader case study of nature's dramatic transformation into a resolutely unnatural aesthetic resource in 20th-century art and literature. The story begins in the late 1940s with the Abstract Expressionist valorization of process, surface, and immediacy—summed up by Jackson Pollock's famous quip, 'I am Nature'—that so influenced the early New York School poets. It ends with 'Breezeway,' a poem about Hurricane Sandy. Along the way, the project documents Ashbery's strategies for literalizing the 'stream of consciousness' metaphor, his negotiation of pastoral and politics during the Vietnam War, and his investment in 'bad' nature poetry.

Author : Robert Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317793885

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Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City by Robert Bennett Pdf

Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyzes how literary movements such as the Beat Generation, the New York poets and Black Arts Moment criticized the spatial restructuring of post-WWII New York City.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123429982

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Antin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015033086623

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What it Means to be Avant-garde by David Antin Pdf

what it means to be avant-garde is David Antin's third collection of "talk poems" published by New Directions. As in his earlier talking at the boundaries (1976), and tuning (winner of the 1984 PEN/Los Angeles Literary Award for Poetry), Antin's brilliant improvised disquisitions at once challenge readers' expectations even as they instruct and entertain. A poet, performance artist, art critic, and professor of visual arts, Antin, since his college days in New York in the '50s, has been at the cutting edge of the avant-garde. The avant-garde? Yes, if by this is meant not an image of fashion but the place where art and life intersect, imparting to both a greater urgency - if is meant the place where experience and knowledge find their deepest expression, where the idea of a universal language can find shape, where the price of art is itself, where the fringe is the very center of existence.