The Edinburgh Companion to Ezra Pound and the Arts
Published on 13. February 2019
Book
Hardback
560 pages
978-1-4744-2917-7 (ISBN)
Description
Showcases Ezra Pound's close involvement with the arts throughout his career
The present volume of new, interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the arts with which Pound had a lifelong interaction including architecture, ballet, cinema, music, painting, photography and sculpture. Divided into 5 historically and thematically arranged sections, the 28 chapters foreground the shifting significance of art forms throughout Pound's life which he spent in London, Paris, Rapallo and Washington.
The Companion maps Pound's practices of engagement with the arts, deepening areas of study that have recently emerged, such as his musical compositions. At the same time, it opens up new fields, particularly Pound's interaction with the performing arts: opera, dance, and cinema. The volume demonstrates overall that Ezra Pound was no mere spectator of the modernist revolution in the arts; rather he was an agent of change, a doer and promoter who also had a deep emotional response to the arts.
Key Features:
The first book to gather together all the different aspects of the subject of Pound and the artsChapters are devoted to topics never covered before: (cinema; political anarchism; early music; Agnes Bedford; the artists Munch, Lekakis, Martinelli, Frampton) Presents the ways Pound's interests and activities in the arts change over time in a continuous story, from his beginnings to his old ageIncludes portraits of friendships and short biographies of artists connected to Pound, showing his personal impact in the arts world
The present volume of new, interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the arts with which Pound had a lifelong interaction including architecture, ballet, cinema, music, painting, photography and sculpture. Divided into 5 historically and thematically arranged sections, the 28 chapters foreground the shifting significance of art forms throughout Pound's life which he spent in London, Paris, Rapallo and Washington.
The Companion maps Pound's practices of engagement with the arts, deepening areas of study that have recently emerged, such as his musical compositions. At the same time, it opens up new fields, particularly Pound's interaction with the performing arts: opera, dance, and cinema. The volume demonstrates overall that Ezra Pound was no mere spectator of the modernist revolution in the arts; rather he was an agent of change, a doer and promoter who also had a deep emotional response to the arts.
Key Features:
The first book to gather together all the different aspects of the subject of Pound and the artsChapters are devoted to topics never covered before: (cinema; political anarchism; early music; Agnes Bedford; the artists Munch, Lekakis, Martinelli, Frampton) Presents the ways Pound's interests and activities in the arts change over time in a continuous story, from his beginnings to his old ageIncludes portraits of friendships and short biographies of artists connected to Pound, showing his personal impact in the arts world
Reviews / Votes
This encyclopedic Companion is an eloquent testament to the astonishing range of Pound's life-long reception of the arts from Quattrocento sculpture to individual artists like Whistler and Kandinsky, to avant-garde cinema, ballet, and chamber music. Both archival and analytical, the Companion provides us with a new understanding of Pound's very particular aesthetic in its specific cultural contexts. * Marjorie Perloff, author of The Futurist Moment:Avant-Garde,Avant Guerre and the Language of Rupture *More details
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Language
English
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Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 246 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
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1157 gr
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978-1-4744-2917-7 (9781474429177)
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Roxana Preda is Researcher and Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and currently engaged in work on The Cantos Project, a digital research environment dedicated to Ezra Pound's major poem, The Cantos. She currently serves as the President of Ezra Pound Society and is senior editor of the society digital quarterly, Make It New, which she created in 2014.
Content
Acknowledgments and creditsPrefaceList of Abbreviations
I. FOUNDATIONS
1. 'Mermaids, that carving': Pound and Italian Art - Giuliana Ferreccio2. 'Templum Aedificavit': Pound and Architecture - Stephen Romer3. Ezra Pound and East Asian Art - Mark Byron4. Ezra Pound and Old Music - Charles Timbrell5. Ezra Pound: Premier Danseur by Proxy - Evelyn Haller6. Time, Speed, Precision, and the Poetry of the Everyday; or, Ezra Pound's Cinema Aesthetic - Bruce Elder
II. THE LONDON PERIOD 1908-1920
7. Ezra Pound and 19th Century Aestheticism: Sharing 'Breath for Beauty and the Arts' with Rossetti and Pater - Sara Dunton and Demetres Tryphonopoulos8. Ezra Pound and James McNeill Whistler: Modernism and Conceptual Art - Jo Brantley Berryman9. Pound and Walter Rummel - Charles Timbrell10. 'Museum Pieces': Laurence Binyon, Ezra Pound, and the Visual Arts - Justin Kishbaugh11. Into the Vortex: Ezra Pound, Anarchism and the Ideological Project of Art Criticism - Mark Antliff 12. 'Intelligence ... shut in by the entrenched forces of stupidity': Pound and Wyndham Lewis - Paul Edwards13. Vorticist Photography or The Three Angles of Pound and Coburn - Ira Nadel 14. 'Creation and Action': Ezra Pound and Italian Futurism - Sean Mark15. Pound and Kandinsky: The Inner Necessity of a Terrestrial Paradise - Jack Baker 16. Agnes Bedford: An Invisible Helpmate - Stephen Adams
III. PARIS 1921-1924
17. Constantin Brancusi Vorticist: Sculpture, Art Criticism, Poetry - Roxana Preda18. Percussive Music for a Triangle. Ezra Pound's Relationship with George Antheil and Olga Rudge - Mauro Piccinini 19. 'Like coins out of circulation': Reframing Ezra Pound's Le Testament - Scott Klein20. Pound as Music Theorist: Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony - Gemma Moss 21. The Expansion of a Theory: Great Bass and Ballet mecanique - Margaret Fisher 22. Renaissance Man's Performance Practice: Ezra Pound's Search for a Contemporary Colour Palette Through His Solo Violin Works - Leslee Smucker
IV. THE ITALIAN YEARS 1925-1939
23. Pound's Artistic Thinking and Relations in Italy, 1925-1945 - Massimo Bacigalupo24. Music Recollected: Ezra Pound's Cavalcanti - Charles Mundye25. Vida Sin Fin: Ezra Pound and Gerhart Muench - Roxana Preda and Heriberto Cruz Cornejo
V. WASHINGTON: MENTORING THE YOUNG IN THE 1950s
26. Sheri Martinelli: The White Goddess - Alec Marsh27. 'Art in the Solid': Ezra Pound and Michael Lekakis - Galateia Demetriou 28. A 'Transference of Power': Ezra Pound and the Cinema of Hollis Frampton - Daniel Hackbarth
Notes on contributorsBibliographyIndex
I. FOUNDATIONS
1. 'Mermaids, that carving': Pound and Italian Art - Giuliana Ferreccio2. 'Templum Aedificavit': Pound and Architecture - Stephen Romer3. Ezra Pound and East Asian Art - Mark Byron4. Ezra Pound and Old Music - Charles Timbrell5. Ezra Pound: Premier Danseur by Proxy - Evelyn Haller6. Time, Speed, Precision, and the Poetry of the Everyday; or, Ezra Pound's Cinema Aesthetic - Bruce Elder
II. THE LONDON PERIOD 1908-1920
7. Ezra Pound and 19th Century Aestheticism: Sharing 'Breath for Beauty and the Arts' with Rossetti and Pater - Sara Dunton and Demetres Tryphonopoulos8. Ezra Pound and James McNeill Whistler: Modernism and Conceptual Art - Jo Brantley Berryman9. Pound and Walter Rummel - Charles Timbrell10. 'Museum Pieces': Laurence Binyon, Ezra Pound, and the Visual Arts - Justin Kishbaugh11. Into the Vortex: Ezra Pound, Anarchism and the Ideological Project of Art Criticism - Mark Antliff 12. 'Intelligence ... shut in by the entrenched forces of stupidity': Pound and Wyndham Lewis - Paul Edwards13. Vorticist Photography or The Three Angles of Pound and Coburn - Ira Nadel 14. 'Creation and Action': Ezra Pound and Italian Futurism - Sean Mark15. Pound and Kandinsky: The Inner Necessity of a Terrestrial Paradise - Jack Baker 16. Agnes Bedford: An Invisible Helpmate - Stephen Adams
III. PARIS 1921-1924
17. Constantin Brancusi Vorticist: Sculpture, Art Criticism, Poetry - Roxana Preda18. Percussive Music for a Triangle. Ezra Pound's Relationship with George Antheil and Olga Rudge - Mauro Piccinini 19. 'Like coins out of circulation': Reframing Ezra Pound's Le Testament - Scott Klein20. Pound as Music Theorist: Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony - Gemma Moss 21. The Expansion of a Theory: Great Bass and Ballet mecanique - Margaret Fisher 22. Renaissance Man's Performance Practice: Ezra Pound's Search for a Contemporary Colour Palette Through His Solo Violin Works - Leslee Smucker
IV. THE ITALIAN YEARS 1925-1939
23. Pound's Artistic Thinking and Relations in Italy, 1925-1945 - Massimo Bacigalupo24. Music Recollected: Ezra Pound's Cavalcanti - Charles Mundye25. Vida Sin Fin: Ezra Pound and Gerhart Muench - Roxana Preda and Heriberto Cruz Cornejo
V. WASHINGTON: MENTORING THE YOUNG IN THE 1950s
26. Sheri Martinelli: The White Goddess - Alec Marsh27. 'Art in the Solid': Ezra Pound and Michael Lekakis - Galateia Demetriou 28. A 'Transference of Power': Ezra Pound and the Cinema of Hollis Frampton - Daniel Hackbarth
Notes on contributorsBibliographyIndex