Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century PoetsJ. D. McClatchy What are poets looking at, looking for, when they walk into a room of pictures? Poets on Painters attempts to answer this question by bringing together, for the first time, essays by modern American and British poets about painting. The poets bring to their task a fresh eye and a freshened language, vivid with nuance and color and force. |
Contents
Art and Ideas | 1 |
Vorticism | 13 |
A Matisse | 25 |
Robert Andrew Parker | 39 |
Pictures | 81 |
The Relations between Poetry and Painting | 109 |
Calm Even in the Catastrophe | 127 |
Painters as Writers | 139 |
Jackson Pollock | 195 |
A Note on Franz Kline | 219 |
Balthus | 233 |
Respect for Things as They Are | 247 |
The Painting of Jane Freilicher | 257 |
The Poet as Painter | 265 |
The Hanged Man and the Dragonfly | 289 |
Notes on Corot | 311 |
Foreword to an Exhibit | 150 |
The Heroic Object and Fernand Léger | 165 |
On Poetry and Painting | 177 |
Against Abstract Expressionism | 185 |
Fragments of a Rodin | 323 |
Crossing the Tracks to Hoppers World | 339 |
Landscapes Empire | 345 |
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