ISBN-13: 9783631357989 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 172 str.
The present study springs from a genuine admiration for John Ashbery s achievement. It aims at exposing those facets of Ashbery s poetry which have been neglected by critical opinion, but which, paradoxically, were instrumental in winning the poet a leading position among the most innovative and daring American poets of today. This study reviews John Ashbery s long-term professional engagement as a visual-art critic and researches conceptual developments and orientations in the visual arts, which have influenced the poet s activity as a creative writer. Tracing analogies between the poetry of John Ashbery and the work of some of the enfants terribles of twentieth-century art Marcel Duchamp and the Pop Artists, among others opens new avenues of interpretation for an oeuvre which has often been considered difficult and solipsistic."