Aesthetics of Visual Poetry, 1914-1928

Name: Aesthetics of Visual Poetry, 1914-1928
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ISBN: 9780226063256

ISBN-10: 0226063259

ISBN-13: 9780226063256

Edition: 1993

Authors: Willard Bohn

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In this, the only full-length study of the visual poetry of the early twentieth century, Willard Bohn expertly illuminates the works of Apollinaire, Josep-Maria Junow, Guillermo de Torre, and others. His fascinating aesthetic insights bring to life this elusive and often misunderstood genre. "An important contribution. Highly sophisticated, the study tends to raise its reader's impression of visual poetry in the twentieth century from trivial pastime to serious preoccupation."--Eric Sellin, Journal of Modern Literature "With his definitive analyses full of quotable observations and sharp critical insights, Bohn has provided a model, pioneering study, one from which current and future…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Willard Bohn is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Illinois State University.



Acknowledgments



Music of the spheres



The Futurist experience



Apollinaire's plastic imagination



Toward a calligrammar



Josep-Maria Junoy



Modes of visual analogy in Catalonia



Joan Salvat-Papasseit



The advent of Ultra



Guillermo de Torre



Marius de Zayas and abstraction


Notes


Bibliography


Index