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A01=Barbara K. Fisher
American Lyric
Arena Chapel
ashbery
Ashbery's Poem
Ashbery's Work
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Author_Barbara K. Fisher
avant-garde poetics
canon formation theory
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Charismatic Ideology
Contemporary American Poetry
convex
Convex Mirror
Deep Red
Dorothea Tanning
ekphrastic
Ekphrastic Encounter
Ekphrastic Poems
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feminist literary analysis
Giotto's Work
institutional critique
john
Lot's Wife
mirror
Mixed Media Work
MoMA Show
Museum Scene
Niki De Saint Phalle
pictura
poems
poetry and museum engagement
Pope Paul III
portrait
postwar American poetry
Prescription Drug Labels
Rockefeller III
self
setting
Snow Man
Tennis Court Oath
Twentieth Century American Poetry
Ut Pictura Poesis
visual culture studies
York School Poets
Product details
- ISBN 9780415975346
- Weight: 610g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jan 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This interdisciplinary study participates in the ongoing critical conversation about postwar American poetry and visual culture, while advancing that field into the arena of the museum. Turning to contemporary poems about the visual arts that foreground and interrogate a museum setting, the book demonstrates the particular importance of the museum as a cultural site that is both inspiration and provocation for poets. The study uniquely bridges the dual canon in contemporary poetry (and calls the lyric/avant-garde distinction into question) by analyzing museum-sponsored anthologies as well as poems by John Ashbery, Richard Howard, Kenneth Koch, Kathleen Fraser, Cole Swensen, Anne Carson, and others. Through these case studies of poets with diverse affiliations, the author shows that the boom in ekphrasis in the past 20 years is not only an aesthetic but a critical phenomenon, a way that poets have come to terms with the critical dilemmas of our moment. Highlighting the importance of poets' peripheral vision-awareness of the institutional conditions that frame encounters with art-the author contend that a museum visit becomes a forum for questioning oppositions that have preoccupied literary criticism for the past 50 years: homage and innovation, modernism and postmodernism, subjectivity and collectivity. The study shows that ekphrasis becomes a strategy for negotiating these impasses-a mode of political inquiry, a meditation on canonization, a venue for comic appraisal of institutionalization, and a means of site-specific feminist revision-in a vital synthesis of critique, perspicacity, and pleasure.
