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Something Close To Music
Something Close To Music
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Description: An intimate and unique collection of the work of John Ashbery a prolific poet and art critic pairing poetry and art writings with playlists of music from his personal library. This book places poetry by Ashbery (1927 2017) gathered from his later collections in conversation with a selection of contemporaneous art writing. In addition as Ashbery loved music and listened to it while writing the playlists here present samplings of music from these same years culled from his own library of recordings. Ashbery's poetry is frequently described as ekphrastic though rather than writing a poem based on or inspired by the content of an artwork or piece of music he engages with how the experience of seeing it and the artistic strategies employed offer ways of thinking about it and through it. Many observations from Ashbery's art writing also provide keys to how we might read his poetry. Many recordings he listened to feature contemporary classical works that emphasize complex textures disparate sounds and disjunct phrases. Ashbery's poetry similarly plays with a diversity of poetic textures and sudden turns such that a reader might construct multiple narratives or pathways of meaning. He rarely offers linear stories or focuses on evocative descriptions of a scene or object. In exploring this ekphrastic book project the reader is invited to discover how for Ashbery these three forms might illuminate and inform one another. In M nica de la Torre's introduction she explores the connection between the three muses of music art and poetry and the ekphrastic experience of reading Ashbery.
Title: Something Close To Music
Author(s): De La Torre Monica
Publisher: David Zwirner
Barcode: 9781644230701
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 6/7/2022
Series: Ekphrasis
Category: Theory Of Art
Description: An intimate and unique collection of the work of John Ashbery a prolific poet and art critic pairing poetry and art writings with playlists of music from his personal library. This book places poetry by Ashbery (1927 2017) gathered from his later collections in conversation with a selection of contemporaneous art writing. In addition as Ashbery loved music and listened to it while writing the playlists here present samplings of music from these same years culled from his own library of recordings. Ashbery's poetry is frequently described as ekphrastic though rather than writing a poem based on or inspired by the content of an artwork or piece of music he engages with how the experience of seeing it and the artistic strategies employed offer ways of thinking about it and through it. Many observations from Ashbery's art writing also provide keys to how we might read his poetry. Many recordings he listened to feature contemporary classical works that emphasize complex textures disparate sounds and disjunct phrases. Ashbery's poetry similarly plays with a diversity of poetic textures and sudden turns such that a reader might construct multiple narratives or pathways of meaning. He rarely offers linear stories or focuses on evocative descriptions of a scene or object. In exploring this ekphrastic book project the reader is invited to discover how for Ashbery these three forms might illuminate and inform one another. In M nica de la Torre's introduction she explores the connection between the three muses of music art and poetry and the ekphrastic experience of reading Ashbery.
Title: Something Close To Music
Author(s): De La Torre Monica
Publisher: David Zwirner
Barcode: 9781644230701
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 6/7/2022
Series: Ekphrasis
Category: Theory Of Art