1st Edition

Authors and Art Movements of the Twentieth Century Painterly Poetics

By Declan Lloyd Copyright 2023
210 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the great influence of twentieth-century artists and art movements on many major writers of the twentieth century. It focuses in particular on four seminal writers who were strongly influenced by very different movements: they are Gertrude Stein and Cubism, William S. Burroughs and Dada, J. G. Ballard and Surrealism, and Douglas Coupland and Pop Art. For these authors the... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Gertrude Stein, Cubism and the Intricacies of Interiority

Chapter 2 – William Burroughs, Dada and the Cut-up Compulsion

Chapter 3 – J. G. Ballard, Surrealism and the Curation of Catastrophe

Chapter 4 – Douglas Coupland, Pop Art and the Aesthetes of Apocalypse

Conclusion

Biography

Declan Lloyd holds a PhD in Literature from Lancaster University, where he teaches on modules within the ELCW (English and Creative Writing) and LICA (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts) departments.