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The Pool Group and the Quest for Anthropological Universality : the Humane Images of Modernism.

Pool was an avant-garde group that originated in 1927 in Britain and was active under this name until 1933. The group consisted of the well-known modernist poet H.D., the English writer Bryher, and the young Scottish writer and artist Kenneth Macpherson. All three were first and foremost writers, wh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schlun, Betsy van
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2017.
Colección:Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations ; Acknowledgements ; 1 Introduction ; 1.1 The Pool Group: Its Formation, Financing, and Avant-garde Lifestyle ; 1.2 A New Humane and Universal Art ; 1.3 State of Research on Pool ; Part I Theory The Spirit of the Quest.
  • 2 The Autonomy and the Necessity of Art 2.1 The Autonomy of Art ; 2.1.1 Bourdieu's Theory of the Literary Field ; 2.1.2 The Literary and Artistic Field of Twentieth-Century Modernism ; 2.1.3 The Pool Members' Positioning within the Literary and Artistic Field of Modernism.
  • 2.1.4 Pool's Attempt to Unite Avant-garde Aesthetics and 'Pure' Art with 'Popular' Culture 2.2 The Necessity of Art ; 2.2.1 The Idea of Art as a Human Necessity throughout History ; 2.2.2 Eibl's Poetical Animal and the Biological Need of the Human for Art.
  • 2.2.3 The Importance of Nature and Biology for Pool and Their Art Part II Technique and Style Towards a Universal Language of Art ; 3 A Language Composed of Images and E/motion ; 3.1 Montage & Metaphor and the Stream of Narrative ; 3.2 Eisenstein and Cinematographic Metaphor.
  • 3.2.1 Eisenstein's Collective Language of Emotion 3.2.2 Intellectual Film: Eisenstein's Dialectical Language for the Masses ; 3.3 Imagism ; 3.3.1 Ezra Pound and the Clear, Objective Image ; 3.3.2 H.D.'s Ascetic Metaphors & Mythopoetic Montages.
  • 3.4 Collage and Photomontage
  • Pool's Scrapbook and Art for the Sake of It: Playing with the Language of Human Psychology, Art and Film Technique.