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The Modernist Response to Chinese Art: Pound, Moore, Stevens
Zhaoming Qian
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Description for The Modernist Response to Chinese Art: Pound, Moore, Stevens
paperback. A reconstruction of three modernist poets' dialogue with the Chinese masters, this sequel to "Orientalism and Modernism", investigates the ways in which three modernist poets received Chinese artistic notions and assimilated them into their literary masterpieces. Num Pages: 296 pages, 42 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; ACBP; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
What role did Chinese art play in the poetic development of Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens? How could they share Chinese artists' Dao, an aesthetic held to be beyond verbal representation? In this sequel to ""Orientalism and Modernism"", Zhaoming Qian investigates the ways in which these three modernist poets received Chinese artistic notions and assimilated them into their literary masterpieces. With 40 rare and previously unpublished photographs presented with accompanying analysis, this study reconstructs the three poets' dialogue with the Chinese masters. In addition to examining ""Canto 49"", ""Nine Nectarines"" and ""Six Significant Landscapes"", by Pound, Moore and ... Read more
What role did Chinese art play in the poetic development of Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens? How could they share Chinese artists' Dao, an aesthetic held to be beyond verbal representation? In this sequel to ""Orientalism and Modernism"", Zhaoming Qian investigates the ways in which these three modernist poets received Chinese artistic notions and assimilated them into their literary masterpieces. With 40 rare and previously unpublished photographs presented with accompanying analysis, this study reconstructs the three poets' dialogue with the Chinese masters. In addition to examining ""Canto 49"", ""Nine Nectarines"" and ""Six Significant Landscapes"", by Pound, Moore and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813921761
SKU
V9780813921761
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About Zhaoming Qian
Zhaoming Qian, Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, is the author of Orientalism and Modernism: The Legacy of China in Pound and Williams and the editor of Ezra Pound and China.
Reviews for The Modernist Response to Chinese Art: Pound, Moore, Stevens
The Modernist Response to Chinese Art is a work of both erudition and sympathy that reveals the root of modernist poets' otherwise baffling interest in and use of Chinese art. Most impressive, perhaps, is the depth of their embrace of it, as Qian has so convincingly documented. - Patricia C. Willis, Yale University, author of Marianne Moore; ""Qian provides a ... Read more