The Edinburgh Companion to Ezra Pound and the Arts

Roxana Preda

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

The Edinburgh Companion to Ezra Pound and the Arts

Roxana Preda

In the series Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474429184

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About this book

Showcases Ezra Pound’s close involvement with the arts throughout his career

The present volume of new, interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the arts with which Pound had a lifelong interaction including architecture, ballet, cinema, music, painting, photography and sculpture. Divided into 5 historically and thematically arranged sections, the 28 chapters foreground the shifting significance of art forms throughout Pound’s life which he spent in London, Paris, Rapallo and Washington.

The Companion maps Pound’s practices of engagement with the arts, deepening areas of study that have recently emerged, such as his musical compositions. At the same time, it opens up new fields, particularly Pound’s interaction with the performing arts: opera, dance, and cinema. The volume demonstrates overall that Ezra Pound was no mere spectator of the modernist revolution in the arts; rather he was an agent of change, a doer and promoter who also had a deep emotional response to the arts.

Key Features:

The first book to gather together all the different aspects of the subject of Pound and the arts
Chapters are devoted to topics never covered before: (cinema; political anarchism; early music; Agnes Bedford; the artists Munch, Lekakis, Martinelli, Frampton)
Presents the ways Pound’s interests and activities in the arts change over time in a continuous story, from his beginnings to his old age
Includes portraits of friendships and short biographies of artists connected to Pound, showing his personal impact in the arts world

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
A Brief Introduction Roxana Preda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I FOUNDATIONS
1 ‘Mermaids, that Carving’: Ezra Pound and Italian Art Giuliana Ferreccio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
2 ‘TEMPLUM AEDIFICAVIT’: Ezra Pound and Architecture Stephen Romer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3 Ezra Pound and East Asian Art Mark Byron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4 Ezra Pound and Old Music Charles Timbrell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
5 Ezra Pound: Premier Danseur by Proxy Evelyn Haller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
6 Time, Speed, Precision and the Poetry of the Everyday; or, Ezra Pound’s Cinema Aesthetic R. Bruce Elder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
PART II THE LONDON PERIOD 1908–1920
7 Ezra Pound and Nineteenth-Century Aestheticism: Sharing ‘Breath for Beauty and the Arts’ with Rossetti and Pater Sara Dunton and Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
8 Ezra Pound and James McNeill Whistler: Modernism and Conceptual Art Jo Brantley Berryman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
9 Ezra Pound and Walter Rummel Charles Timbrell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
10 ‘Museum Pieces’: Laurence Binyon, Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts Justin Kishbaugh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
11 Into the Vortex: Ezra Pound, Anarchism and the Ideological Project of Art Criticism Mark Antliff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
12 ‘Intelligence . . . Shut in by the Entrenched Forces of Stupidity’: Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis Paul Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
13 Vorticist Photography, or The Three Angles of Ezra Pound and Alvin Langdon Coburn Ira Nadel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
14 ‘Creation and Action’: Ezra Pound and Italian Futurism Sean Mark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
15 Ezra Pound and Wassily Kandinsky: Inner Necessity and the PARADISO TERRESTRE Jack Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
16 Agnes Bedford: An Invisible Helpmate Stephen Adams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
PART III PARIS 1921–1924
17 Constantin Brâncuşi, Vorticist: Sculpture, Art Criticism, Poetry Roxana Preda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
18 Percussive Music for a Triangle: Ezra Pound’s Relationship with George Antheil and Olga Rudge Mauro Piccinini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
19 ‘Like Coins out of Circulation’: Reframing Ezra Pound’s LE TESTAMENT Scott W. Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
20 Ezra Pound as Music Theorist: ANTHEIL AND THE TREATISE ON HARMONY Gemma Moss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
21 The Expansion of a Theory: Great Bass and BALLET MÉCANIQUE Margaret Fisher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
22 Renaissance Man: Ezra Pound’s Search for a Contemporary Colour Palette Through His Solo Violin Works Leslee Smucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	376
PART IV THE ITALIAN YEARS 1925–1945
23 Ezra Pound’s Artistic Thinking and Relations in Italy, 1925–1945 Massimo Bacigalupo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
24 Music Recollected: Ezra Pound’s CAVALCANTI Charles Mundye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
25 VIDA SIN FIN: Ezra Pound and Gerhart Münch Roxana Preda and Heriberto Cruz Cornejo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
PART V WASHINGTON: MENTORING THE YOUNG IN THE 1950s
26 Sheri Martinelli: The White Goddess Alec Marsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
27 Art ‘in the Solid’: Ezra Pound and Michael Lekakis Galateia Demetriou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
28 A ‘Transference of Power’: Ezra Pound and the Cinema of Hollis Frampton Daniel Hackbarth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	509
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	539

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 560
Illustrations
- Other: 87 images, 23 music scores and 6 line drawings
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474429184