The Pool Group and the Quest for Anthropological Universality: The Humane Images of Modernism - Couverture rigide

Schlun, Betsy Van

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110439212 ISBN 13 : 9783110439212

Editeur : De Gruyter, 2016

Synopsis

Pool was an avant-garde group that originated in 1927 in Britain and was active under this name until 1933. The group consisted of the well-known modernist poet H.D., the English writer Bryher, and the young Scottish writer and artist Kenneth Macpherson. All three were first and foremost writers, who at one point discovered film as another modern, experimental medium of artistic expression. Pool associated with almost all the iconic modernists of their time, with Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemmingway, James Joyce, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, to name only a few. In addition, due to their interest in film, they were also befriended with such influential filmmakers as Sergei Eisenstein and Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and became closely associated with Weimar Berlin film culture.
Pool unites classical Modernism and modernity, two directions that are usually considered to be contradictory. The Pool phenomenon opens a new perspective onto Modernism and prompts a reconsideration of its canonical texts and figures. Contrary to many artists of Modernism, who devised highly individualistic aesthetic styles, the artists of Pool strove towards a universal art of humanity that was rooted in all-human nature and psychology.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Betsy van Schlun, Bielefeld University, Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110439212
• ISBN 13: 9783110439212
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 476
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Walter de Gruyter GmbH; productsafety@degruyterbrill.com; ; Genthiner Straße 13; Berlin; 10785; Allemagne