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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462166403321

Autore

Scobie Stephen

Titolo

Earthquakes and explorations : language and painting from cubism to concrete poetry / / Stephen Scobie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

1-4426-6486-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Theory / Culture

Disciplina

759.06/32

Soggetti

Cubism and literature

Art and literature

Painting, Modern - 20th century

Concrete poetry - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Supplement of Language -- 2. ‘We Are a Man’: The Narrativization of Painting -- 3. Apollinaire and the Naming of Cubism -- 4. The Gospel According to Kahnweiler -- 5. The Semiotics of Cubism -- 6. Metaphor and Metonymy in Cubism and Gertrude Stein -- 7. The Window Frame: Delaunay and Apollinaire -- Entr’acte: Signs Of The Times -- 8. Gadji Beri Bimba: Abstraction In Poetry -- 9. Models Of Order: Ian Hamilton Finlay -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Like the earthquakes and explorations depicted on the covers of Gertrude Stein's notebooks, this study responds to artistic and linguistic fault lines and charts new territories. The author's concern is both with a general theoretical question - the relationship between painting and poetry, between the visual and the verbal - and with a specific period of artistic history - the early years of the twentieth century, when Cubism flourished. Rather than seeing any conflict or irreconcilable division between painting and poetry, Scobie proposes, as a model for their relation, the Derridean notion of 'the supplement.'



This relation is grounded in the pervasiveness of language, in the ways in which language surrounds, imbues, structures, and supplements both verbal and non-verbal images.Working from the double focus of theory and history, this book does not attempt to develop a consecutive argument, but rather navigates around its topics, adopting a slightly different approach in each chapter. It begins with a general theoretical discussion of the role of language in painting and in art history, then moves to a series of specific discussions of aspects of Cubism, considering the paintings of Georges Braque, and the writings of Gertrude Stein and Guillaume Apollinaire. It concludes with an examination of the experimental form of concrete poetry, including sound and visual poetry, especially the Cubist-influenced work of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Earthquakes and Explorations will interest those studying art history, literary criticism, and critical theory.