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Charles Olson and American Modernism

By Mark Byers

Charles Olson and American Modernism

By Mark Byers

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This volume situates the work of American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) at the centre of the early post-war American avant-garde. It shows Olson to have been one of the major advocates and theorists of American modernism in the late 1940s and early 1950s; a poet who responded fully andvariously to the political, ethical, and aesthetic urgencies driving innovation across contemporary American art. Reading Olson's work alongside that of contemporaries associated with the New York Schools of painting and music (as well as the exiled Frankfurt School), the book draws on Olson'spublished and unpublished writings to establish an original account of early post-war American modernism. The development of Olson's work is seen to illustrate two primary drivers of formal innovation in the period: the evolution of a new model of political action pivoting around the radicalindividual and, relatedly, a powerful new critique of instrumental reason and the Enlightenment tradition. Drawing on extensive archival research and featuring readings of a wide range of artists including, prominently, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Wolfgang Paalen, and John Cage, Charles Olson and American Modernism offers a new reading of a major American poet and an original account of theemergence of post-war American modernism.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2018-07-24
Publication Date:
2018-07-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198813252
ISBN13:
9780198813255
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
419 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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