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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

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Author

Stephen Joseph Ross

Publisher

Oxford University Press;Oxford Univ Pr, Ross, Stephen Joseph

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198798385

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Nature, History, Poetry

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14