And Max Jacob reading at parties of artists and writers.
Poets tend to be driven by visual images at least as much as by text,
except in the limited case of langpo and its cousins.
But I think what truth there is to the observation has to do with
younger generations of visual and literary artists, often trained in
programs that separate them from each other, and products, in the US,
at least, of a culture that facilitates ignorance not only of other
arts but of other cultures and classes and anything but the very recent past.
Most of the visual artists that I know, at least among my
contemporaries, are profoundly literate. On the other hand, I
remember seeing the work of one of my friends when I first met her,
during her expressionist phase. "There's a lot of Munch in these," I
said. She didn't know who I was talking about. She held an MFA from a
prestigious academy.
I design books and occasionally do pastels or paint or take pictures.
I also build furniture for myself and care what it looks like.
What does "a series of etchings direct to copper plate" mean?
Etchings are always done on copper or zinc plates.
Mark
At 08:47 AM 1/23/2006, you wrote:
>On 23/1/06 10:59 PM, "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > People - particularly visual
> > artists, have rubbed along without recourse to other disciplines quite
> > happily for a long time now as far as I can see. There's a whole
> > history of it. Read any biog of the major artists, look at photographs
> > of them in their studios, their homes. I think you'll search a long
> > time before you find evidence of books in those photos.
>
>Gosh. I'm thinking of Eluard naming Miro's paintings, and how he counted
>Dali and Tanguy among his close friends; Appollinaire and Chagall; Frank
>O'Hara and the New York school of artists, the whole history of collage
>(which comes from poets) and Breton and surrealism...then theatre and dance
>and the visual artists and writers who participated in those art forms
>(Giacommeti designing the tree in Waiting for Godot, Balanchine and
>Chagall), Kiefer, who has worked so much off the poetry of Celan, or people
>like Cocteau, who seemed to do everything...
>
>It's late here and I feel a bit incoherent, but this seems an amazing
>statement, Roger.
>
>Best
>
>A
>
>
>Alison Croggon
>
>Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
>Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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