A Useful Art: Essays and Radio Scripts on American Design - Brossura

Zukofsky, Louis

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ISBN 10: 0819566403 ISBN 13: 9780819566409

Casa editrice: Wesleyan Univ Pr, 2003

Riassunto

A Useful Art is an invaluable chronicle of a major American poet’s engagement with this country’s indigenous tradition of design. In 1936, the Federal Arts Project (a division of the WPA) hired Louis Zukofsky, along with many others, to prepare a compendium of information on traditional American crafts. The Index of American Design aimed to define original U.S. culture at a time when interest in handicrafts had just begun to emerge. These previously unpublished essays and radio scripts are scrupulously researched investigations of various American handicrafts: the topics they cover include ironwork, tin ware, furniture maker Duncan Phyfe and friendship quilts. They also reflect Zukofsky’s sense of the poem as a crafted object and his attempt to reconcile the labor theory of value with aesthetic production. This book, which can be seen in the context of kindred work by William Carlos William (In the American Grain) and Ezra Pound (Guide to Kulchur), will be of special interest to readers of 20th-century poetry, cultural critics, social historians, and scholars of design.

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Informazioni sull?autore

LOUIS ZUKOFSKY (1904-1978) is widely considered one of the primary forerunners of contemporary avant-garde writing. His many books include "A," Prepositions +, and A Test of Poetry. KENNETH SHERWOOD is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at the Permian Basin. JOHN TAGGART is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Creative Writing at Shippensberg State University, and the author of When the Saints (2000).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Wesleyan Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0819566403
• ISBN 13: 9780819566409
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Redattore: Sherwood Kenneth
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