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from: University of Nebraska Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 700.92
EAN: 9780803242951
ISBN: 0803242956
Label: University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 238
Publication Date: January 01, 2004
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Sales Rank: 1074060
Studio: University of Nebraska Press
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Born in 1914 in Beatrice, Nebraska, and presumed dead in 1955 (when he apparently leapt from the Golden Gate Bridge), Weldon Kees has become one of the better-known “unknown” American poets of the twentieth century, his fiction and poetry largely kept alive by other poets. But Kees was also that rare artist who excelled in many genres and media: a skillful painter, filmmaker, jazz musician, and composer. He was a gifted critic as well, and his criticism bears the marks of his own deep and broad engagement with the arts. Weldon Kees and the Arts at Midcentury is the first book to reflect the full range and reach of Kees’s artistic activities. Bringing together writers from various disciplines—art historians, poets, literary critics, curators, and cultural scholars, including Dore Ashton, James Reidel, Dana Gioia, and Stephen C. Foster—this volume offers a wide variety of perspectives through which to evaluate the meaning and significance of Kees’s achievement. Although the essays themselves partake of the diversity of Kees’s impact on the culture, all agree on one fundamental point: any history of postwar American culture that neglects Kees’s multifaceted contribution is ultimately incomplete.
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Rating: - Kees Continues To Attract Scholars
This is a handsome volume timed to coincide with the new Kees biography "VANISHED ACT." The editor, Daniel A. Siedell, has contacted seven scholars (and himself) and gotten them to write what amount to quite insightful essays. The book could have been less skimpy and might have trawled its net a little wider, how many times do we have to hear from Gioia and Reidel again, for example? However what each of them writes is good, although reading Reidel's article about the place of film in Kees' life ... Read More
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