"This remarkable book examines the impact of Rome on American artists and writers from the earliest days of the new republic to the present.

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 ...

Modernism's Other Work challenges our view of relationships between aesthetic autonomy and the world of daily life--a conjuncture that Lisa Siraganian demonstrates has often been misunderstood in critical studies of modernism.

In a profound new analysis of Dickinson's life and work, Judith Farr explores the desire, suffering, exultation, spiritual rapture, and intense dedication to art that characterize Dickinson's poems, deciphering their many complex and witty ...

By Frank O'Hara. Edited by Bill Berkson. Essay by Kynaston McShine.

" -- Amazon.com viewed January 25, 2021. 'J. D. McClatchy has addressed a topic of real interest.....I think this is a book that many painters might well read with pleasure.'--Christopher Reid, Times Literary Supplement

An interpretation of Botticelli's painting which relates it closely to works of poetry by Lorenzo, Politian and Pulci.

The incorporation of elements from one artistic medium into another creates a dynamic interplay of image and ideology, both between art forms and within individual texts and paintings, which constitutes the crux of this book.

This book confronts a significant paradox in the development of literary realism: the very novels that present themselves as purveyors and celebrants of direct, ordinary human experience also manifest an obsession with art that threatens to ...