The Edinburgh Companion to Ezra Pound and the Arts (English, Roxana Preda)

Product description Review This encyclopedic Companion is an eloquent testament to the astonishing range of Pound's life-long reception of the arts from Quattrocento sculpture to individual artists like Whistler and Kandinsky, to avant-garde cinema, ballet, and chamber music. Both archival and analytical, the Companion provides us with a new understanding of Pound's very particular aesthetic in its specific cultural contexts.-- "Marjorie Perloff, author of The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre and the Language of Rupture" From the Back Cover Showcases Ezra Pound’s close involvement with the arts throughout his careerThis volume of new, interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the arts with which Pound had a lifelong interaction including architecture, ballet, cinema, music, painting, photography and sculpture. Divided into 5 historically and thematically arranged sections, the 28 chapters foreground the shifting significance of art forms throughout Pound’s life, which he spent in London, Paris, Rapallo and Washington.The Companion maps Pound’s practices of engagement with the arts, deepening areas of study that have recently emerged, such as his musical compositions. At the same time, it opens up new fields, particularly Pound’s interaction with the performing arts: opera, dance, and cinema. The book demonstrates overall that Ezra Pound was no mere spectator of the modernist revolution in the arts; rather he was an agent of change, a doer and promoter who also had a deep emotional response to the arts.Roxana Preda is Researcher and Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. About the Author Roxana Preda is Researcher and Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and currently engaged in work on The Cantos Project, a digital research environment dedicated to Ezra Pound’s major poem, The Cantos. She currently serves as the President of Ezra Pound Society and is senior editor of the society digital quarterly, Make It New, which she created in 2014.Roxana Preda is Researcher and Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and currently engaged in work on The Cantos Project, a digital research environment dedicated to Ezra Pound's major poem, The Cantos. Read more