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Author Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998.

Title Convergences : essays on art and literature / Octavio Paz ; translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane.

Publication Info. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1987]
©1987

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  NX65 .P388 1987    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description viii, 303 pages ; 22 cm
Note "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Contents Reading and contemplation -- Seeing and using : art and craftsmanship -- At table and in bed -- Iniquitous symmetries -- The new analogy : poetry and technology -- The verbal contract -- Picasso : hand-to-hand combat with painting -- Literature and literalness -- Latin-American poetry -- A literature of convergences -- Quevedo, Heraclitus, and a handful of sonnets -- The tradition of the Haiku -- Blank thought -- Constellations : Breton and Miró -- Two centuries of American painting (1776-1971) -- The tree of life.
Summary Reading and contemplation -- Seeing and using : art and craftsmanship -- At table and in bed -- Iniquitous symmetries -- The new analogy : poetry and technology -- The verbal contract -- Picasso : hand-to-hand combat with painting -- Literature and literalness -- Latin-American poetry -- A literature of convergences -- Quevedo, Heraclitus, and a handful of sonnets -- The tradition of the Haiku -- Blank thought -- Constellations : Breton and Mirao -- Two centuries of American painting (1776-1971) -- The tree of life.
Subject Arts.
Arts.
Added Title Convergencias. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92070407
ISBN 0151290555 : $19.95
9780151290550