Machine art and other writings
Subtitle: the lost thought of the Italian years : essays
By: Erza Pound ; selected and edited, and with an introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone.
Contributors: Ardizzone, Maria Luisa.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Other titles: Machine art & other writings
Description: The essays in this volume address Pound's diverse aesthetic concerns, including his Vorticism and his criticism of Western metaphysics, his advancement of the machine as a new criterion for beauty, his encounter with the German Bauhaus movement, and his search for a type of writing ruled by mathematical rather than grammatical laws.

Machine Art and Other Writings documents the wide proportions of Pounds's polemic against the abstractions of modernism and reveals the extent to which he was at odds with the metaphysical assumptions of his time. The volume, edited by Ardizzone, is the result of years of systematic and intensive study of Pound's manuscripts, including glosses from the texts of his personal library.

Proposing an unconventional approach to Pound studies that focuses on marginality and intertextuality, she subverts the canonical hierarchy of Pound's works by revealing the power of texts considered marginalia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-170) and index.