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Spirals : The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art / Nico Israel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Modernist LatitudesPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) : ‹B›60 b&w illus. and 18 color illus.‹/B›Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231153027
  • 9780231526685
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.9112 23
LOC classification:
  • PN56.M54 I87 2015
  • PN56.M54 I87 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction: On Spirals -- 1. Definitions: A Brief History of Spirals (and a Way of Reading Spirally) -- 2. Entering the Whirlpool: 'Pataphysics, Futurism, Vorticism -- 3. Twinned Towers: Yeats, Tatlin, and the Unfashionable Performance of Internationalism -- 4. L'Habite en Spirale: Duchamp, Joyce, and the Ineluctable Visibility of Entropy -- 5. At the End of the Jetty: Beckett . . . Smithson. Recoil . . Return -- In Conclusion: The Spiral and the Grid -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: 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 twentieth century. Juxtaposing the work of writers and artists-including W. B. Yeats and Vladimir Tatlin, James Joyce and Marcel Duchamp, and Samuel Beckett and Robert Smithson-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. The book takes the spiral not only as its topic but as its method. Drawing on the writings of Walter Benjamin and Alain Badiou, Israel theorizes a way of reading spirals, responding to their dual-directionality as well as their affective power. The sensations associated with spirals--flying, falling, drowning, being smothered-reflect the anxieties of limits tested or breached, and Israel charts these limits as they widen from the local to the global and recoil back. Chapters mix literary and art history to explore 'pataphysics, Futurism, Vorticism, Dada and Surrealism, "Concentrisme," minimalism, and entropic earth art; a coda considers the work of novelist W. G. Sebald and contemporary artist William Kentridge. In Spirals, Israel offers a refreshingly original approach to the history of modernism and its aftermaths, one that gives modernist studies, comparative literature, and art criticism an important new spin.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction: On Spirals -- 1. Definitions: A Brief History of Spirals (and a Way of Reading Spirally) -- 2. Entering the Whirlpool: 'Pataphysics, Futurism, Vorticism -- 3. Twinned Towers: Yeats, Tatlin, and the Unfashionable Performance of Internationalism -- 4. L'Habite en Spirale: Duchamp, Joyce, and the Ineluctable Visibility of Entropy -- 5. At the End of the Jetty: Beckett . . . Smithson. Recoil . . Return -- In Conclusion: The Spiral and the Grid -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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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 twentieth century. Juxtaposing the work of writers and artists-including W. B. Yeats and Vladimir Tatlin, James Joyce and Marcel Duchamp, and Samuel Beckett and Robert Smithson-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. The book takes the spiral not only as its topic but as its method. Drawing on the writings of Walter Benjamin and Alain Badiou, Israel theorizes a way of reading spirals, responding to their dual-directionality as well as their affective power. The sensations associated with spirals--flying, falling, drowning, being smothered-reflect the anxieties of limits tested or breached, and Israel charts these limits as they widen from the local to the global and recoil back. Chapters mix literary and art history to explore 'pataphysics, Futurism, Vorticism, Dada and Surrealism, "Concentrisme," minimalism, and entropic earth art; a coda considers the work of novelist W. G. Sebald and contemporary artist William Kentridge. In Spirals, Israel offers a refreshingly original approach to the history of modernism and its aftermaths, one that gives modernist studies, comparative literature, and art criticism an important new spin.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)

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