The Edinburgh companion to Ezra Pound and the arts / edited by Roxana Preda.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-538) and index.

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.

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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- A Brief Introduction -- PART I FOUNDATIONS -- 1 'Mermaids, that Carving': Ezra Pound and Italian Art -- 2 'Templum Aedificavit': Ezra Pound and Architecture -- 3 Ezra Pound and East Asian Art -- 4 Ezra Pound and Old Music -- 5 Ezra Pound: Premier Danseur by Proxy -- 6 Time, Speed, Precision and the Poetry of the Everyday -- or, Ezra Pound's Cinema Aesthetic -- 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

8 Ezra Pound and James McNeill Whistler: Modernism and Conceptual Art -- 9 Ezra Pound and Walter Rummel -- 10 'Museum Pieces': Laurence Binyon, Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts -- 11 Into the Vortex: Ezra Pound, Anarchism and the Ideological Project of Art Criticism -- 12 'Intelligence ... Shut in by the Entrenched Forces of Stupidity': Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis -- 13 Vorticist Photography, or The Three Angles of Ezra Pound and Alvin Langdon Coburn -- 14 'Creation and Action': Ezra Pound and Italian Futurism -- 15 Ezra Pound and Wassily Kandinsky: Inner Necessity and the Paradiso Terrestre

16 Agnes Bedford: An Invisible Helpmate -- PART III PARIS 1921-1924 -- 17 Constantin BrâncuŞi, Vorticist: Sculpture, Art Criticism, Poetry -- 18 Percussive Music for a Triangle: Ezra Pound's Relationship with George Antheil and Olga Rudge -- 19 'Like Coins out of Circulation': Reframing Ezra Pound's Le Testament -- 20 Ezra Pound as Music Theorist: Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony -- 21 The Expansion of a Theory: Great Bass and Ballet mécanique -- 22 Renaissance Man: Ezra Pound's Search for a Contemporary Colour Palette Through His Solo Violin Works -- PART IV THE ITALIAN YEARS 1925-1945

23 Ezra Pound's Artistic Thinking and Relations in Italy, 1925-1945 -- 24 Music Recollected: Ezra Pound's Cavalcanti -- 25 Vida Sin Fin: Ezra Pound and Gerhart Münch -- PART V WASHINGTON: MENTORING THE YOUNG IN THE 1950s -- 26 Sheri Martinelli: The White Goddess -- 27 Art 'in the Solid': Ezra Pound and Michael Lekakis -- 28 A 'Transference of Power': Ezra Pound and the Cinema of Hollis Frampton -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index

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