An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard s "L" "escarpolette, "or "The Swing, " is often reproduced and its famous foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper mid-swing is widely familiar. In "Reckitt s Blue," John Wilkinson explores that well-known scene in a sequence of poems that engages with the image of the flying slipper.Though born out of visual encounters with art, the title poem of this book also examines artifacts that evoke a violent encounter, weaponry and domestic and ritual objects from the Jolika collection of Papua New Guinean materials in San Francisco's de Young...
An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard s "L" "escarpolette, "or "The Swing, " is often reproduced and its famous foreground image of a young woma...
