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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 August 2017
- ISBN 9780198798385
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 223x149x18 mm
- Weight 406 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Stephen J. Ross examines the concept of nature in the work of John Ashbery. Through close readings of Ashbery's poetry and critical prose, he reveals Ashbery's work to be a case study of the dramatic transformation of nature in art and literature since World War II.
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In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), the American poet John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much of modern art: 'How could he explain to them his prayer / that nature, not art, might usurp the canvas?' When Ashbery asks this strange question, he joins a host of transatlantic avant-gardists--from the Dadaists to the 1960s neo-avant-gardists and beyond--who have dreamed of turning art into nature, of creating art that would be 'valid solely on its own terms, in the way nature itself is valid, in the way a landscape--not its picture--is aesthetically valid' (Clement Greenberg, 1939). Invisible Terrain reads Ashbery as a bold intermediary between avant-garde anti-mimeticism and the long western nature poetic tradition. In chronicling Ashbery's articulation of 'a completely new kind of realism' and his engagement with figures ranging from Wordsworth to Warhol, the book presents a broader case study of nature's dramatic transformation into a resolutely unnatural aesthetic resource in 20th-century art and literature. The story begins in the late 1940s with the Abstract Expressionist valorization of process, surface, and immediacy--summed up by Jackson Pollock's famous quip, 'I am Nature'--that so influenced the early New York School poets. It ends with 'Breezeway,' a poem about Hurricane Sandy. Along the way, the project documents Ashbery's strategies for literalizing the 'stream of consciousness' metaphor, his negotiation of pastoral and politics during the Vietnam War, and his investment in 'bad' nature poetry.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
The Invisible Avant-Garde: Nature, New Realism, and Ashbery's France
The Delta of Living into Everything: Ashbery's Riverine Poetics
A Language That Is Ever Green: Ashbery's Pastoral
Out of the Endless Bathos: Ashbery's 'Bad' Nature Poetry
The Season Is Stalled: Ashbery's Changing Climate
Bibliography
Index
Invisible Terrain: John Ashbery and the Aesthetics of Nature
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