Title: Savage sight, constructed noise
First published: 2003
Description: "This book examines poetic adaptations of painterly techniques in works by writers such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Andre Breton, Frank O'Hara, and John Ashbery - all chosen for the experimentalism of their poetry as well as for the quality of their critical writings on art. Close attention is paid to essays on painters identified with Cubism, Futurism, and Dada-Surrealism in France and with Abstract Expressionism and New Realism in the United States."

"Selected poems are examined in light of the critical essays and are taken either as illustrations of a new plastic poetic or as novel hybrids of plastic and literary strategies. Although the parallels between modern poetry and painting go beyond avant-garde techniques, this book emphasizes such innovations as collage, chance operations, and automatism to demonstrate the shift in aesthetic attention from finished products to creative processes."--Jacket.
Subjects: Art, Knowledge, Art and literature, Avant-garde (Aesthetics), History, History and criticism, French poetry, French poetry, history and criticism, Et l'art, Poésie française, Histoire et critique, Art et littérature, Histoire, Avant-garde (Art), POETRY / Continental European, Malerei, Avantgardeliteratur, Ekphrasis, Französisch, Poetik, Gedichten, Avant-garde, Schilderkunst, Knowledge and learning
Places: United States, France
People: Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960), André Breton (1896-1966), Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), John Ashbery (1927-), John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PQ443 .S875 2003