Spirals : the whirled image in twentieth-century literature and art /

In this elegantly written and beautifully illustrated book, Nico Israel reveals how spirals are at the heart of the most significant literature and visual art of the 20th century. Juxtaposing the work of influential writers and artists, he argues that spirals provide a crucial frame for understandin...

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Main Author: Israel, Nico (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Series:Modernist latitudes.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: On spirals
  • Definitions: a brief history of spirals (and a way of reading spirally)
  • Entering the whirlpool: pataphysics, futurism, vorticism
  • Twinned towers: Yeats, Tatlin, and the unfashionable performance of internationalism
  • L'Habite en spirale: Duchamp, Joyce, and the ineluctable visibility of entropy
  • At the end of the jetty: Beckett ... Smithson. recoil ... return
  • In conclusion: The spiral and the grid.