No.21Februaryr, 2001
 
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of FMTP back numbers FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.16 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 16th installment ) Part 2 Modern Age Chapter 10 American in Paris ( Section 1- 3, 1st of 2 parts) <Summary of the Article> Critisism of British society on the New York Herald: Essay on Brancusi in the Little Review; Meeting with Natalie Barney; Pound and Dadaists and Surrealists; Pound and young American writers; Pound and Eliot's The Waste Land; Publication of The Natural Philosophy of Love; Publication of Joyce's Ulysses; Visit to Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini; Exihibition of Tami Koume's paintings at Pound's apartment; Bell Esprit for Eliot FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.17 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 17th installment ) Part 2 Modern Age Chapter 10 American in Paris ( Section 4- 5, 2nd of 2 parts) <Summary of the Article> Travel to Italy and research on Sigismund Malatesta; Loosing contributor's position to The Dial; Publication of Malatesta Cantos in The Criterion; Meeting with George Antheil; Introducing Antheil to Olga Rudge; John Quinn's visit to Paris; Yeats awarded Nobel Prize; Publication of Cantos XIII and part of XII in Transatlantic Review started by Ford Madox Ford; William Carlos Williams visits Paris; Pound's musical works played at the concert performed by Rudge and Antheil; Leaving Paris for Italy Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (8) Whistler visited Trouville on Normandy Coast in France from October to November 1865 and painted seashore landscapes. In these works, he developed new technique and sensitivity learnt from Japanese art. Nevertheless there he was with Gustave Courbet who was the leader of the Realism, Whistler was departing from his influence. FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.18 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 18th installment ) Part 2 Modern Age Chapter 11 Poet in Rapallo( Section 1- 2, 1st of 2 parts) <Summary of the Article> Pounds settled in Rapallo at the beginning of 1925; Mussolini consolidating his fascist government, creating new institutional framework; D.H. Laurence's repulsion toward fascism expressed in Kangaroo; Bertland Russell saw fascist philosophy in Laurence; Germany's economic disaster and publication of Mein Kampf in 1925; Enlightenment vs Medievalism in The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann; The southern literary renaissance and the publication of The Fugitive in the United States; Publication of A Draft of XVI Cantos Essay, "Difinitions" Activities in Music; Ballet Mécanique composed and performed by Antheil in Paris; Performance of Pound's Le Testament de Villon in Paris. Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (9) Whistler made enigmatic travel to Valparaiso in Chile in 1866. There he developed his love for silhoutte and crepuscle of night. "As Whistler penetrated more and more into an understanding of Oriental art, its influence upon his own work became less obvious and more profound,"according to description by James Laver. FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.19 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 19th installment ) Part 2 Modern Age Chapter 11 Poet in Rapallo( Section 3- 4, 2nd of 2 parts) <Summary of the Article> Publication of a new journal, Exile, edited by himsel; Pound's political thought expressed in his essay, 'The State'; Interest in Cofucius; Translation of Ta Hsio: The Great Digest Eliot's conversion to Anglo-Catholicism and immigration to England; Pound and Yeats in Rapallo; Publication of A Draft of the Cantos 17-27 in London. Pound's explanation of the Cantos' structure to Yeats; Pound's interest in Frobenius. FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN No.20 Series : Ezra Pound in History ( 20th installment ) Part 2 Modern Age Chapter 12 Stormy Thirties( Section 1- 2, 1st of 3 parts) <Summary of the Article> Father Pound reminisced by Daughter Mary in Discretions ; Young poets and Pound; Louis Zukofsky edited a special objectivist number of Poetry in 1931 and an objectivsist anthology in 1932.; Nancy Cunard published Pound's A Draft of XXX Cantos in 1930; Worsened world economy and Pound; Meeting with Mussolini in 1933; Publication of ABC of Economics in 1933; Publication of Jefferson and/or Mussolini in 1935; Publication of ABC of Readings in 1934; Ideogrammic method described in ABC of Economics; Publication of Make It New in 1934; Publication of Eleven New Cantos: XXXI-XLI in 1934; Eliot and political discussion in The Criterion; Social Credit in the U.S.; G.K.Chesterton and Pound Art : James McNeill Whistler's Lecture on Art (10) Whistler, coming back to London from Valparaiso, made six oil sketches for a frieze of figures commissioned by Frederick R. Leyland. He could not complete the scheme of decoration. In these sketches, he seems to have tried to unite Japanese art and classic Greek art. |