num_pages: 160
description: The intricate relationship between poetry and the visual arts has invited centuries of speculation about a deep connection of all art to mysterious sources of inspiration. In contrast, this study considers their association to be the ideological effect of a «colonizing» gaze which is essentially self-referential. By analyzing the poetry of René Char and John Ashbery, both deeply involved with art and artists, this study persuasively argues that the arts traditionally act for poetry as a kind of a source of inspiration and a mirror for poetic self-definition.
language: English
title: Poetry's Self-Portrait: The Visual Arts as Mirror and Muse in René Char and John Ashbery
titlecomplete: Poetry's Self-Portrait: The Visual Arts as Mirror and Muse in René Char and John Ashbery (New Connections)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers