Spirals : the whirled image in twentieth-century literature and art /

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In this elegantly written and beautifully illustrated book, Nico Israel reveals how spirals are at the heart of the most significant literature and visual art of the 20th century. Juxtaposing the work of influential writers and artists, he argues that spirals provide a crucial frame for understandin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Israel, Nico (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Colección:Modernist latitudes.
Temas:
1900-1999
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Modernism (Literature)
Spirals > Symbolic aspects.
Spirals in art.
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Modernisme (Littérature)
Spirales dans l'art.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
ART > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Spirals in art
Spirals > Symbolic aspects
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: On spirals
  • Definitions: a brief history of spirals (and a way of reading spirally)
  • Entering the whirlpool: pataphysics, futurism, vorticism
  • Twinned towers: Yeats, Tatlin, and the unfashionable performance of internationalism
  • L'Habite en spirale: Duchamp, Joyce, and the ineluctable visibility of entropy
  • At the end of the jetty: Beckett ... Smithson. recoil ... return
  • In conclusion: The spiral and the grid.

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