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Maggie Nelson - Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions - 9781609381097 - V9781609381097
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Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions

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Description for Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions Paperback. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
In this whip-smart study, Maggie Nelson provides the first extended consideration of the roles played by women in and around the New York School of poets, from the 1950s to the present, and offers unprecedented analyses of the work of Barbara Guest, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Eileen Myles, and abstract painter Joan Mitchell as well as a reconsideration of the work of many male New York School writers and artists from a feminist perspective.

With contagious enthusiasm, Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions ranges widely and covers collaborations between poets and painters in the 1950s and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781609381097
SKU
V9781609381097
Shipping Time
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99-3

About Maggie Nelson
Nelson's revision of the New York School makes it not only more diverse but also more resistant of defining tropes. By showing how a motley collection of poets and artists defied the gendered conventions of both the aesthetic status quo and the so-called experimental, Nelson restores the avant-garde to its raison d'etre: to lead us past orthodoxy to discovery." —Modern ... Read more

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