Painter's Word - Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley and Ad Reinhardt as Writers

This book adds a new perspective to the study of American art by reclaiming underrated writings of three 20th-century masters, Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley and Ad Reinhardt. Their rich and diverse literary output was never before studied methodically in and beyond the context of their painting. The book's first part sets the necessary framework for discussing their texts by outlining the long history of debates about inter-art analogies and rivalries. Through systematic close reading of Benton's, Hartley's and Reinhardt's writings the study reveals novel and unique juxtapositions of visual and verbal elements at work which are present in both their paintings and writings and confirms the existence of a strong link between their painterly and writerly dispositions.

List of contents

Contents: Pre-Text (Introduction) - Contexts - Ut pictura poesis (overview of debates about inter-art analogies and rivalries) - They Wrote as They Painted (overview of the history of artists' writings) - Case Studies - Thomas Hart Benton - Marsden Hartley - Ad Reinhardt - Conclusion.

About the author

Edyta Frelik is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland. She is a winner of the Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize.

Product details

• Authors: Edyta Frelik
• Assisted by: Marek Wilczynski (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9783631667835
• ISBN: 978-3-631-66783-5
• No. of pages: 259
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 20 mm x 214 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture; Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies