Cubism, Stieglitz, and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams
Bram Dijkstra

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Paper | 1978 | $24.95 / £14.95
256 pp. | 5 x 8 | 13 line drawings 17 halftones

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Previous studies of William Carlos Williams have tended to look only for the literary echoes in his verse. According to Bram Dijkstra, the new movements in the visual arts during the 1920s affected Williams's work as much as, if not more than, the new writing of the period. Dijkstra catches the excitement of this period of revolutionary art, reveals the interactions between writers and painters, and shows in particular the specific and general impact this world had on Williams's early writings.

Review:

"Dijkstra has demonstrated beyond any doubt that Williams was enormously influenced by experimentation in the visual arts and that he attempted to emulate the Stieglitz group in focusing on the object itself, delineating it as precisely as possible and letting it represent the moment of perception without intruding personal comment."--Comparative Literature

Endorsement:

"Georgia O'Keeffe's reaction when I told her in 1973 that I was starting a book on Stieglitz went from 'What for? Nobody who knew him could write about him' to 'Go ahead' because it would be fun for her to see what I had to say, and finally to her powerful instruction: 'Read Bram Dijkstra's [Cubism, Stieglitz, and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams]; it's the only book about Stieglitz worth reading.' I read it and agreed."--Sue Davidson Lowe, author of Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	List of Illustrations
I	The New York Avant Garde, 1910-1917	3
II	The Poem as a Canvas of Broken Parts	47
III	Stieglitz	82
IV	The Evangelists of the American Moment	108
V	Doctor Williams and the New World	127
VI	The Hieroglyphics of a New Speech	145
VII	The Poem as Still-Life	161
	Selective Bibliography	199
	Index	211

Subject Areas:

• American Language and Literature
• Art and Architecture
• Poetry

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