Criminal ingenuity : Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the struggle between the arts /

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Author / Creator:	Levy, Ellen (Ellen Sue), 1957-
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xxxii, 260 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Modernist literature & culture Modernist literature & culture.
Subject:	Moore, Marianne, -- 1887-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation. Ashbery, John, -- 1927-2017 -- Criticism and interpretation. Cornell, Joseph -- Criticism and interpretation. Brainard, Joe, -- 1942-1994 -- Criticism and interpretation. Ashbery, John, -- 1927-2017 Brainard, Joe, -- 1942-1994 Cornell, Joseph. Moore, Marianne, -- 1887-1972 Art and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Art and society -- United States -- History -- 21st century. Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 21st century. Art and society. Literature and society. United States. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11256944

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ISBN:	9780199813469 0199813469 9781283113441 1283113449 9780199746354 0199746354
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Poetry was declining/ Painting advancing/ we were complaining/ it was '50," recalled poet Frank O'Hara in 1957. Criminal Ingenuity traces a series of linked moments in the history of this transfer of cultural power from the sphere of the word to that of the image. Ellen Levy explores the New York literary and art worlds in the years that bracket O'Hara's lament through close readings of the works and careers of poets Marianne Moore and John Ashbery and assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. In the course of these readings, Levy discusses such topics as the American debates around surreal.
Other form:	Print version: Levy, Ellen (Ellen Sue), 1957- Criminal ingenuity. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780199746354

Table of Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Credits; Series Editors' Foreword; Introduction; Abbreviations; 1. Borrowing Paints from a Girl: Greenberg, Eliot, Moore, and the Struggle Between the Arts; 2. "No Poet has been so Chaste": Moore and the Poetics of Ambivalence; 3. An Inconsequential Past: Joseph Cornell after Marianne Moore; 4. Surrealism in "the second, open sense": The Poets of the New York School; 5. "A medium in which it is possible to recognize Oneself ": Ashbery between Poetry and Painting; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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