03245nam 2200649 a 450 991045956830332120200520144314.01-283-11344-997866131134430-19-981346-9(CKB)2670000000083837(EBL)694023(OCoLC)726734956(SSID)ssj0000521790(PQKBManifestationID)12186599(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521790(PQKBWorkID)10523609(PQKB)11735745(MiAaPQ)EBC694023(Au-PeEL)EBL694023(CaPaEBR)ebr10471760(CaONFJC)MIL311344(EXLCZ)99267000000008383720100802d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCriminal ingenuity[electronic resource] Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the struggle between the arts /Ellen LevyOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20111 online resource (297 p.)Modernist literature and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-974635-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Credits; Series Editors' Foreword; Introduction; Abbreviations; 1. Borrowing Paints from a Girl: Greenberg, Eliot, Moore, and the Struggle Between the Arts; 2. "No Poet has been so Chaste": Moore and the Poetics of Ambivalence; 3. An Inconsequential Past: Joseph Cornell after Marianne Moore; 4. Surrealism in "the second, open sense": The Poets of the New York School; 5. "A medium in which it is possible to recognize Oneself ": Ashbery between Poetry and Painting; Notes; Works Cited; Index""Poetry was declining/ Painting advancing/ we were complaining/ it was '50,"" recalled poet Frank O'Hara in 1957. Criminal Ingenuity traces a series of linked moments in the history of this transfer of cultural power from the sphere of the word to that of the image. Ellen Levy explores the New York literary and art worlds in the years that bracket O'Hara's lament through close readings of the works and careers of poets Marianne Moore and John Ashbery and assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. In the course of these readings, Levy discusses such topics as the American debates around surrealism, theModernist literature & culture.Art and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryArt and societyUnited StatesHistory21st centuryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory21st centuryElectronic books.Art and societyHistoryArt and societyHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryLiterature and societyHistory811/.52Levy Ellen(Ellen Sue),1957-911621MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459568303321Criminal ingenuity2041451UNINA