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: title: Reading and contemplation; title: Seeing and using : art and craftsmanship; title: At table and in bed; title: Iniquitous symmetries; title: The new analogy : poetry and technology; title: The verbal contract; title: Picasso : hand-to-hand combat with painting; title: Literature and literalness; title: Latin-American poetry; title: A literature of convergences; title: Quevedo, Heraclitus, and a handful of sonnets; title: The tradition of the Haiku; title: Blank thought; title: Constellations : Breton and Miró; title: Two centuries of American painting (1776-1971); title: The tree of life.