Convergences
Subtitle: essays on art and literature
By: Octavio Paz ; translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane.
Edition: 1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1991
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Arts.
Notes: Translation of: Convergencias.
Table of contents: Reading and contemplation; Seeing and using : art and craftsmanship; At table and in bed; Iniquitous symmetries; The new analogy : poetry and technology; The verbal contract; Picasso : hand-to-hand combat with painting; Literature and literalness; Latin-American poetry; A literature of convergences; Quevedo, Heraclitus, and a handful of sonnets; The tradition of the Haiku; Blank thought; Constellations : Breton and Miró; Two centuries of American painting (1776-1971); The tree of life.