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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822991703321

Autore

Cran Rona

Titolo

Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Literature and Culture : Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan / / by Rona Cran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-315-57268-0

1-138-74333-X

1-317-16429-6

1-317-16428-8

1-4724-4684-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/357

Soggetti

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Collage

Art and literature

Art, American - 20th century - Themes, motives

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

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations ; Introduction: Catalysing Encounters; 1 Habitat New York: Joseph Cornell's 'imaginative universe' ; 2 'Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece': Re-reading William Burroughs, from Junky to Nova Express; 3 'Donc le poète est vraiment voleur du feu': Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of Love and Theft; 4 Bob Dylan and Collage: 'A deliberate cultural jumble' ; Conclusion: 'Yield us a new thought'; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Emphasizing the diversity of collage in the twentieth century, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan. Collage's catalytic effect, Cran argues, enabled each to overcome a crisis in representation that threatened to destabilize their work. Throughout,



she shows that rigid definitions of collage severely limit our understanding of artists and writers who used it in non-traditional ways.