Spirals: the whirled image in twentieth-century literature and art
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Main Author: Israel, Nico 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Columbia Univ. Press 2015
Series:Modernist Latitudes
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: On spirals -- Definitions: a brief history of spirals (and a way of reading spirally) -- Entering the whirlpool: pataphysics, futurism, vorticism -- Twinned towers: Yeats, Tatlin, and the unfashionable performance of internationalism -- L'Habite en spirale: Duchamp, Joyce, and the ineluctable visibility of entropy -- At the end of the jetty: Beckett . . . Smithson. recoil . . . return -- In conclusion: The spiral and the grid
Physical Description:XIV, 299 S., [8] Bl. Ill. 21 cm
ISBN:9780231153027
9780231526685

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