| Description |
362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Cases and inquiries: Having Congress : the shame of the Thirties. The alphabet and the junkyard. The D-S expedition. The demon of originality. The tortoise and the hare : Valéry, Freud, and Leonardo da Vinci. What is 'pataphysics? The prince, the actor, and I : the histrionic sensibility -- Writers: Balzac and the open novel. Vibratory organism : Baudelaire's first prose poem.Paul Valéry : sportsman and barbarian. Artaud possessed. Malraux, the conqueror. Locationg Michel Tournier -- Artists and others: Claude Monet : approaching the abyss. Apollinaire's great wheel. The devil's dance : Stravinsky's corporal imagination. René Magritte meets the (Irish) bull. Marcel Duchamp. Meyer Schapiro's master classes -- Two polemical asides: How to rescue literature. The poverty of modernism -- Afterword: The innocent eye and the armed vision. |
| Subject |
Arts, Modern -- 19th century -- Psychological aspects.
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Arts, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Psychological aspects. |
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- Psychological aspects.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| ISBN |
0374176795 : $18.95 |
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9780374176792 |
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