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Poetry's Self-Portrait: The Visual Arts as Mirror and Muse in Ren? Char and John Ashbery

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Poetry's Self-Portrait: The Visual Arts as Mirror and Muse in René Char and John Ashbery - Paolini, Shirley (Editor), and Eichbauer, Mary E
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The intricate relationship between poetry and the visual arts has invited centuries of speculation about a deep connection of all art to mysterious sources of inspiration. In contrast, this study considers their association to be the ideological effect of a ???colonizing??? gaze which is essentially self-referential. By analyzing the poetry of Ren??? Char and John Ashbery, both deeply involved with art and artists, this study persuasively argues that the arts traditionally act for poetry as a kind of muse: a source of ...

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Poetry's Self-Portrait: The Visual Arts as Mirror and Muse in René Char and John Ashbery 1993, Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

ISBN-13: 9780820418179

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