{"product_id":"earthquakes-and-explorations-stephen-scobie-9781442613201","title":"Earthquakes and Explorations: Language and Painting from Cubism to Concrete Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike the earthquakes and explorations depicted on the covers of Gertrude Stein's notebooks, this study responds to artistic and linguistic fault lines and charts new territories. The author's concern is both with a general theoretical question - the relationship between painting and poetry, between the visual and the verbal - and with a specific period of artistic history - the early years of the twentieth century, when Cubism flourished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than seeing any conflict or irreconcilable division between painting and poetry, Scobie proposes, as a model for their relation, the Derridean notion of 'the supplement.' This relation is grounded in the pervasiveness of language, in the ways in which language surrounds, imbues, structures, and supplements both verbal and non-verbal images.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking from the double focus of theory and history, this book does not attempt to develop a consecutive argument, but rather navigates around its topics, adopting a slightly different approach in each chapter. It begins with a general theoretical discussion of the role of language in painting and in art history, then moves to a series of specific discussions of aspects of Cubism, considering the paintings of Georges Braque, and the writings of Gertrude Stein and Guillaume Apollinaire. It concludes with an examination of the experimental form of concrete poetry, including sound and visual poetry, especially the Cubist-influenced work of Ian Hamilton Finlay. \u003cem\u003eEarthquakes and Explorations\u003c\/em\u003e will interest those studying art history, literary criticism, and critical theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Scobie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442613203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442613201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/13\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d","brand":"Stephen Scobie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44245259288831,"sku":"9781442613201","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8ef76c25-4d69-4813-8364-3fee1e43629b.jpg?v=1693927019","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/earthquakes-and-explorations-stephen-scobie-9781442613201","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}