Spirals : the whirled image in twentieth-century literature and art /
Israel, Nico,
Spirals : the whirled image in twentieth-century literature and art / Nico Israel. - 1 online resource - Modernist latitudes . - Modernist latitudes. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: On spirals -- Definitions: a brief history of spirals (and a way of reading spirally) -- Entering the whirlpool: pataphysics, futurism, vorticism -- Twinned towers: Yeats, Tatlin, and the unfashionable performance of internationalism -- L'Habite en spirale: Duchamp, Joyce, and the ineluctable visibility of entropy -- At the end of the jetty: Beckett ... Smithson. recoil ... return -- In conclusion: The spiral and the grid.
In this elegantly written and beautifully illustrated book, Nico Israel reveals how spirals are at the heart of the most significant literature and visual art of the 20th century. Juxtaposing the work of influential writers and artists, he argues that spirals provide a crucial frame for understanding the mutual involvement of modernity, history, and geopolitics, complicating the spatio-temporal logic of literary and artistic genres and of scholarly disciplines.
In English.
9780231526685 (electronic bk.) 0231526687 (electronic bk.) 0231153023 9780231153027
10.7312/isra15302 doi
22573/ctt13k08tq JSTOR 9B30A62A-9725-45D1-B57D-58F0A0DA25EB OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2014028478
1900-1999
Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)
Spirals--Symbolic aspects.
Spirals in art.
Littérature--Histoire et critique--Théorie, etc.--20e siècle
Modernisme (Littérature)
Spirales dans l'art.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
ART--History--Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Modernism (Literature)
Spirals in art.
Spirals--Symbolic aspects.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
PN56.M54 / I87 2015
809.9112
Spirals : the whirled image in twentieth-century literature and art / Nico Israel. - 1 online resource - Modernist latitudes . - Modernist latitudes. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: On spirals -- Definitions: a brief history of spirals (and a way of reading spirally) -- Entering the whirlpool: pataphysics, futurism, vorticism -- Twinned towers: Yeats, Tatlin, and the unfashionable performance of internationalism -- L'Habite en spirale: Duchamp, Joyce, and the ineluctable visibility of entropy -- At the end of the jetty: Beckett ... Smithson. recoil ... return -- In conclusion: The spiral and the grid.
In this elegantly written and beautifully illustrated book, Nico Israel reveals how spirals are at the heart of the most significant literature and visual art of the 20th century. Juxtaposing the work of influential writers and artists, he argues that spirals provide a crucial frame for understanding the mutual involvement of modernity, history, and geopolitics, complicating the spatio-temporal logic of literary and artistic genres and of scholarly disciplines.
In English.
9780231526685 (electronic bk.) 0231526687 (electronic bk.) 0231153023 9780231153027
10.7312/isra15302 doi
22573/ctt13k08tq JSTOR 9B30A62A-9725-45D1-B57D-58F0A0DA25EB OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2014028478
1900-1999
Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)
Spirals--Symbolic aspects.
Spirals in art.
Littérature--Histoire et critique--Théorie, etc.--20e siècle
Modernisme (Littérature)
Spirales dans l'art.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
ART--History--Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Modernism (Literature)
Spirals in art.
Spirals--Symbolic aspects.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
PN56.M54 / I87 2015
809.9112