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Criminal Ingenuity: Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the Struggle Between the Arts (Modernist Literature and Culture) by Ashbery, John; Brainard, Joe; Cornell, Joseph; Moore, Marianne; Ashbery, John; Cornell, Joseph; Levy, Ellen Sue; Moore, Marianne; Brainard, Joe is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"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, the function of the "token woman" in artistic canons, and the role of the New York City Ballet in the development of mid-century modernism, and situates her central figures in relation to such colleagues and contemporaries as O'Hara, T. S. Eliot, Clement Greenberg, Walter Benjamin, and Lincoln Kirstein. Moore, Cornell, and Ashbery are connected by acquaintance and affinity-and above all, by the possession of what Moore calls "criminal ingenuity," a talent for situating themselves on the fault lines that fissure the realms of art, sexuality, and politics. As we consider their lives and works, Levy s

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Author

Ashbery, John; Brainard, Joe; Cornell, Joseph; Moore, Marianne; Ashbery, John; Cornell, Joseph; Levy, Ellen Sue; Moore, Marianne; Brainard, Joe

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190454005

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Poetry, History