{"product_id":"charles-olson-and-american-modernism-mark-byers-9780198813255","title":"Charles Olson and American Modernism: The Practice of the Self","description":"This volume situates the work of American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) at the centre of the early post-war American avant-garde. It shows Olson to have been one of the major advocates and theorists of American modernism in the late 1940s and early 1950s; a poet who responded fully and\u003cbr\u003evariously to the political, ethical, and aesthetic urgencies driving innovation across contemporary American art. Reading Olson's work alongside that of contemporaries associated with the New York Schools of painting and music (as well as the exiled Frankfurt School), the book draws on Olson's\u003cbr\u003epublished and unpublished writings to establish an original account of early post-war American modernism. The development of Olson's work is seen to illustrate two primary drivers of formal innovation in the period: the evolution of a new model of political action pivoting around the radical\u003cbr\u003eindividual and, relatedly, a powerful new critique of instrumental reason and the Enlightenment tradition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on extensive archival research and featuring readings of a wide range of artists including, prominently, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Wolfgang Paalen, and John Cage, \u003cem\u003eCharles Olson and American Modernism \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a new reading of a major American poet and an original account of the\u003cbr\u003eemergence of post-war American modernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Byers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198813252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198813255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d","brand":"Mark Byers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47419018739967,"sku":"9780198813255","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_81f889cc-7f3c-4b6d-b169-278cfdec7e3d.jpg?v=1761508940","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/charles-olson-and-american-modernism-mark-byers-9780198813255","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}