Sorry, due to the pressures of the interview I skipped vital parts of
the below message. Collage, for me, gets into the English Language via
Pound and Apollinaire; Picasso of course is the originator of collage
as an art form.
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Douglas Barbour
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> Hey, congratulations on that.
>
> Then, there's the question of where it (Modernism) began even: Benjamin, I
> think, would argue Paris & Baudelaire, at least as a beginning....
>
> I recall a review in the LRB a few years ago, of a book from Italy on
> Pound, mentioning the stark refusal of so many Brits to admit what Pound (&
> Eliot, etc) did. Then all the rather lesseer known poets there, some of whom
> I've met, who do.
>
> But here in Canada, for people like me, the Pound-WIlliams line, & where it
> led, is what counts, & does so, at least in my case, formally. They taught
> me how to write....
>
> Doug
> On 2-Apr-08, at 11:45 AM, Roger Day wrote:
>
>
> > No, I'm not disagreeing with you.
> >
> > The timeline looks like Picasso, Braque, Apolinaire then Pound.
> > Talking about mangling facts, but every art history I read that
> > mentioned Apollinaire insisted that he would get the art wrong.
> >
> > Re: assemblage v collage, I read today that assemblage is 3D. And my
> > Glasgow Application reads assemblage throughout ... ah well, one for
> > the interview the week after next.
> >
> > BTB, I just got accepted onto the BA course at Cardiff.
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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