Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism

Hardback

Main Details

Title Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Rebecca Beasley
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:236
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 161
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - poetry and poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780521870405
ClassificationsDewey:811.52
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 21 June 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Ezra Pound was deeply engaged with the avant-garde art scene in London and Paris during the early twentieth century. The effects of this engagement were not restricted to experiments in poetic form, however; they directly shaped Pound's social and political thought. In this 2007 book Rebecca Beasley tracks Pound's education in visual culture in chapters that explore Pound's early poetry in the context of American aestheticism and middle-class education; imagism, anarchism and post-impressionist painting; vorticism and anti-democracy in early drafts of The Cantos; Dadaist conceptual art, internationalism and Pound's turn to Italian fascism. In establishing a critical vocabulary profoundly indebted to the visual arts, Pound laid the basis for a literary modernism that is, paradoxically, a visual culture. Drawing on archive materials and magazine contributions, this study makes an important contribution to our understanding of Pound's intellectual development and the relationship between modernist literature and the visual arts.

Author Biography

Rebecca Beasley is Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, University of London.