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The Pool Group and the Quest for Anthropological Universality

Betsy van Schlun
Pool was an avant-garde group that originated in 1927 in Britain and was active under this name until 1933. The group consisted of the well-known modernist poet H.D., the English writer Bryher, and the young Scottish writer and artist Kenneth Macpherson. All three were first and foremost writers, who at one point discovered film as another modern, experimental medium of artistic expression. Pool associated with almost all the iconic modernists of their time, with Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemmingway, James Joyce, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, to name only a few. In addition, due to their interest in film, they were also befriended with such influential filmmakers as Sergei Eisenstein and Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and became closely associated with Weimar Berlin film culture. Pool unites classical Modernism and modernity, two directions that are usually considered to be contradictory. The Pool phenomenon opens a new perspective onto Modernism and prompts a reconsideration of its canonical texts and figures. Contrary to many artists of Modernism, who devised highly individualistic aesthetic styles, the artists of Pool strove towards a universal art of humanity that was rooted in all-human nature and psychology.
Autor: Schlun, Betsy van
EAN: 9783110439212
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 476
Produktart: Gebunden
Verlag: De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 21.11.2016
Untertitel: The Humane Images of Modernism
Schlagworte: Altenglisch Anglistik / Altenglisch Anthropologie Britannien Brite Britisch Großbritannien Literaturgeschichte Kritik / Literaturkritik Literaturkritik Literaturwissenschaft Linguistik Sprachwissenschaft
Größe: 31 × 160 × 236
Gewicht: 857 g