Ford Madox Ford and visual culture / edited by Laura Colombino.

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The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; and relates aspects of Ford's work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time. This volume marks the seventieth anniversary of Ford's death. Its focus is how his work engages with visual culture. He wrote criticism, biography, and reminiscences about the Pre-Raphaelite artists he'd been brought up amongst - Rossetti, Holman Hunt, and in particular his grandfather Ford Madox Brown. But his art-writing ranges much more widely, from Holbein to Cézanne and Matisse. Ford came to advocate Impressionism in literature. In London before the First World War he got to know avant-garde artists like Wyndham Lewis and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and wrote about modern visual art movements, such as Futurism, Vorticism and Cubism. This work is discussed, not just in terms of what it tells us about art, but for what it reveals about the development of Ford's own practice as a writer, and of his critical ideas. After the War he lived in France with two painters, first the Australian Stella Bowen, then the American Janice Biala, and moved in the Modernist art circles of Picasso, Juan Gris, Gertrude Stein and Brancusi. This volume includes sixteen new essays by critics and art historians on Ford's engagement with the rapidly transforming visual cultures of his era, which break new ground discussing his writing about visual arts, and how it affected his fiction, poetry and criticism. Among numerous illustrations are several portraits of Ford by Janice Biala reproduced for the first time. Also published here for the first time are generous extracts from Biala's marvelous letters from the 1930s about Ford.

Preliminary Material -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE / Max Saunders -- INTRODUCTION / Laura Colombino -- FROM PAINT TO PRINT -- GRANDFATHER'S LEGACY / Angela Thirlwell -- FORD MADOX FORD'S ART CRITICISM AS A RESERVOIR FOR HIS NARRATIVE POETICS / Vita Fortunati -- FROM PRE-RAPHAELISM TO IMPRESSIONISM / Max Saunders -- IMAGE-MUSIC-TEXT: FORD AND THE IMPRESSIONIST LYRIC / Ashley Chantler -- TO COOK, OR TO PAINT, IN PARIS?: FORD IN COLOUR / Sara Haslam -- VISUALITY VS. TEMPORALITY: PLOTTING AND DEPICTION IN THE FIFTH QUEEN AND LADIES WHOSE BRIGHT EYES / Rob Hawkes -- THE PORTRAIT: FORD'S CHEF-D'ɶUVRE INCONNU / Gene M. Moore -- FORD MADOX FORD'S LITERARY PORTRAITS / Anna Viola Sborgi -- FORDING HOLBEIN / Martin Stannard -- SKULL/BRAIN DRAIN STAIN (THE AMBASSADORS) / guy mannes-abbott -- 'IF WE SHADOWS HAVE OFFENDED': THE METAPHOR OF SHADOW IN THE MARSDEN CASE / Jenny Plastow -- A MAP OF TORY MISREADING IN PARADE'S END / Mark Conroy -- MODERNITY, SHOCK AND CINEMA: THE VISUAL AESTHETICS OF FORD MADOX FORD'S PARADE'S END / Alexandra Becquet -- FORD, BOWEN, AND ITALIAN ART / Joseph Wiesenfarth -- FORD + BIALA: A LONG AND PASSIONATE DIALOGUE / Jason Andrew -- FORD, MATISSE AND THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE (IN)VISIBLE OBJECTS OF THE RASH ACT AND HENRY FOR HUGH / Laura Colombino -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ABSTRACTS -- ABBREVIATIONS.

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