Ezra Pound And The Visual Arts

by Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (Introduction)

Overview

A gathering of Ezra Pound’s writing, criticism, and reviews on art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811217835
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	11/17/1980
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin’s first letter to Pound, he wrote: “Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of ‘noble caring’ for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US.” Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful.

Editorial Reviews

"In visual art...his appreciation of individual talent, of ancient and current movements, provides a touchstone of taste for many aspects of his epoch."

The New York Review of Books