1st Edition
Museum Mediations Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry
By Barbara K. Fischer
Copyright 2006
242 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
242 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
242 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This interdisciplinary study participates in the ongoing critical conversation about postwar American poetry and visual culture, while advancing that field into the arena of the museum. Turning to contemporary poems about the visual arts that foreground and interrogate a museum setting, the book demonstrates the particular importance of the museum as a cultural site that is both inspiration and... Read more
List of Figures Permissions Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION : The Museum as Muse CHAPTER 1: Charisma and Critique: Interrogating Aesthetic Liminality in Museum-Sponsored Anthologies CHAPTER 2: Returned Again to the Exhibition: John Ashbery, Avant-Gardism, and Ekphrastic Risk CHAPTER 3: Daring to Wink: The Museum Comedies of Kenneth Koch and Richard Howard CHAPTER 4: Someone (A Woman) Watching: Site-Specific Ekphrasis by Three Feminist Innovators Epilogue Works Cited
Biography
Fisher, Barbara K.
