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The Last Avant-Garde

The Making of the New York School of Poets

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  • 433 páginas
  • 16 horas de lectura

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"The Last Avant-Garde" is a richly detailed portrait of one of the most significant movements in American arts and letters. Covering the years 1948 to 1966, the book focuses on four fast friends -- John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler -- the poets at the center of the New York School. They were both acolytes and catalysts. Enthralled with the bold experiments of painters like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, each came to New York filled with the ideas that would revolutionize poetry and greatly influence writers, visual artists, musicians, and composers up to the present day. Lehman brings to life the exhilarating creative ferment of the time and place, the relationship of great friendship to great art, and the powerful influence a group of visual artists, especially Jane Freilicher, Larry Rivers, and Fairfield Porter, had on the literary efforts of the New York School.

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The Last Avant-Garde, David Lehman

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1998
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Título
The Last Avant-Garde
Subtítulo
The Making of the New York School of Poets
Idioma
Inglés
Editorial
Doubleday
Publicado en
1998
Formato
Tapa dura
Páginas
433
ISBN10
038547542X
ISBN13
9780385475426
Serie
Descripción
"The Last Avant-Garde" is a richly detailed portrait of one of the most significant movements in American arts and letters. Covering the years 1948 to 1966, the book focuses on four fast friends -- John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler -- the poets at the center of the New York School. They were both acolytes and catalysts. Enthralled with the bold experiments of painters like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, each came to New York filled with the ideas that would revolutionize poetry and greatly influence writers, visual artists, musicians, and composers up to the present day. Lehman brings to life the exhilarating creative ferment of the time and place, the relationship of great friendship to great art, and the powerful influence a group of visual artists, especially Jane Freilicher, Larry Rivers, and Fairfield Porter, had on the literary efforts of the New York School.