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Explores abstraction as a keyword in aesthetic modernism and in critical thinking since MarxAbstraction as the 'missing keyword' in Raymond WilliamsThe writing of abstraction in Marx and MarxismPaul Cézanne and Barnett Newman compared as writer-artists of abstraction New readings of abstraction and the inhuman in the experimental writing of Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens and Samuel BeckettA close study of Beckett's 'Proustian equation' and its role in a transformed thinking of abstractionAbstraction is one of the most important words in modernism and in the critical thought of modernity, yet its complex work is invariably hidden in plain sight. What do we want from abstraction? Does it refer to thought, or to art? Is it a term of reproach, or of affirmation? Beyond these distinctions, Jeff Wallace's new intellectual history of abstraction in modernism and modernity proposes that abstraction is always uniquely concerned with the importance and revaluation of the inhuman in and for the human. Wallace's case studies range across the writings of Raymond Williams and Paul Valéry, Marx and Marxist aesthetics, the discourse on abstract visual art in Cézanne, Kandinsky, Mondrian and Newman, the literary experimentalisms of Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens and Samuel Beckett, and the twenty-first-century legacies of modernist abstraction in two forms: the post-Deleuzian resurgence of interest in the philosophies of William James, Henri Bergson and A. N. Whitehead; and the act of looking at the abstract canvas in plays by Yasmina Reza, John Logan and Lee Hall. Contrary to habitual associations of abstraction's difficulty with the exclusivity of high modernism, Wallace finds an inclusive and democratic impulse at the heart of the difficulty itself - the promise of an abstraction for all.

Abstraction --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- Abstraction in literature --- Art, Abstract

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Edward Ragg's study was the first to examine the role of abstraction throughout the work of Wallace Stevens. By tracing the poet's interest in abstraction from Harmonium through to his later works, Ragg argues that Stevens only fully appreciated and refined this interest within his later career. Ragg's detailed close-readings highlight the poet's absorption of late nineteenth century and early twentieth century painting, as well as the examples of philosophers and other poets' work. Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction will appeal to those studying Stevens as well as anyone interested in the relations between poetry and painting. This valuable study embraces revealing philosophical and artistic perspectives, analyzing Stevens' place within and resistance to Modernist debates concerning literature, painting, representation and 'the imagination'.

Stevens, Wallace --- Abstractie in de literatuur --- Abstraction dans la littérature --- Abstraction in literature --- Art et littérature --- Kunst en literatuur --- Peinture et littérature --- Schilderkunst en literatuur --- Abstraction in literature. --- Art and literature. --- Stevens, Wallace, --- Art and literature --- Literature and art --- Literature and painting --- Literature and sculpture --- Painting and literature --- Sculpture and literature --- Aesthetics --- Literature --- Aesthetics. --- Arts and Humanities

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"Charles Altieri's book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context by analysing how major poets reacted to the challenge posed by modernist painting's radical critique of traditional representational models for art. It argues that modernist poets have tended to resist the received values of their contemporary culture by finding idealising principles in modes of pure abstraction. It traces the use of such abstraction in literature from Wordsworth, through Baudelaire and Mallarme, to T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Gertrude Stein. There are summary chapters also on Wallace Stevens and Ezra Pound, considerations of Cezanne and the Cubists, and a substantial theoretical discussion of the nature of abstract art."--Publisher description.

Poetry --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Abstractie in de literatuur --- Abstraction dans la littérature --- Abstraction in literature --- Ik in de literatuur --- Moi dans la littérature --- Self in literature --- American poetry --- Modernism (Literature) --- Poésie américaine --- Modernisme (Littérature) --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Abstraction in literature. --- Art and literature --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Soi dans la littérature --- Zelf in de literatuur --- Abstraction dans la littérature --- Poésie américaine --- Modernisme (Littérature) --- Moi dans la littérature --- 20th century --- United States --- Eliot, Thomas Stearns --- Criticism and interpretation --- Pound, Ezra Loomis --- Stevens, Wallace --- Williams, William Carlos --- Moore, Marianne --- Stein, Gertrude