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Remarkable Modernisms - Contemporary American Authors on Modern Art (Paperback)
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For the authors discussed in Remarkable Modernisms -- poets John
Yau, Charles charles Simic, and Mark Strand, and novelists Ann
Beattie and Joyce Carol Oates -- writing about modern art not only
helps to illuminate the work of the artist but also serves as a
stimulus to verbal self-portraiture. By revealing as much about
their own lives and works as they do about the visual objects
reviewed -- pieces for example by Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Joseph
Cornell, Alex Katz, Edward Hopper, and George Bellows -- the
authors studied by Daniel Morris extend the scope of their
analysis. In all five cases, writing about art becomes a critical
inquiry into the nature of public acts of witnessing and private
acts of seeing and not seeing.While challenging older, rigidly
formalist approaches, these authors also diverge from the strictly
contextual approaches favored by many contemporary academic
critics. As poets and novelists, they remain sensitive to the value
of compositional techniques when they address a visual artifact,
and they reject the shibboleth of content versus formalist
approaches to art. They reveal that this dichotomy fails to account
for the semantics of form -- the interwoven relationship between
the how and the what of a work of art. Indebted to visual art as a
basis for their own compositional discoveries in words, these
authors' writings on art have the effect of turning pictures into a
language that extends our frame of reference beyond the flat
surface of the picture plane to each author's version of
contemporary society as social text.
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