{"product_id":"machine-art-and-other-writings-ezra-pound-9780822317562","title":"Machine Art and Other Writings: The Lost Thought of the Italian Years","description":"\u003ci\u003eMachine Art and Other Writings\u003c\/i\u003e presents previously unpublished and rare writings by one of the literary giants of the modernist period, Ezra Pound. Written from the late 1920s to the early part of the 1940s, these essays, selected by Maria Luisa Ardizzone and including \"Machine Art,\" \"How To Write,\" \"European Paideuma,\" and \"Pragmatic Aesthetics,\" are typically Poundian in style--irascible, eccentric, and by turns both engaging and cryptic. Importantly, these essays from Pound's Italian years shed light both on the sections of the \u003ci\u003eCantos\u003c\/i\u003e written in the late 1940s and on the underpinnings of his well-known anti-Semitism.\u003cbr\u003eThe essays in this volume address Pound's diverse aesthetic concerns, including his Vorticism and his criticism of Western metaphysics, his advancement of the machine as a new criterion for beauty, his encounter with the German Bauhaus movement, and his search for a type of writing ruled by mathematical rather than grammatical laws. \u003ci\u003eMachine Art and Other Writings\u003c\/i\u003e documents the wide proportions of Pound's polemic against the abstractions of modernism and reveals the extent to which he was at odds with the metaphysical assumptions of his time. The volume, edited by Ardizzone, is the result of years of systematic and intensive study of Pound's manuscripts, including glosses from the texts of his personal library. Proposing an unconventional approach to Pound studies that focuses on marginality and intertextuality, she subverts the canonical hierarchy of Pound's works by revealing the power of texts considered marginalia.\u003cbr\u003eGeneral readers, students and scholars in the fields of European and American modernism, aesthetics, the history of technology, and art history, as well as Pound specialists and the many poets and writers influenced by Pound, will greet the publication of \u003ci\u003eMachine Art and Other Writings\u003c\/i\u003e with interest and anticipation.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ezra Pound\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822317567\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822317562\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/28\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ezra Pound","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48483719348479,"sku":"9780822317562","price":104.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6623729e-a21d-478b-a2d3-ff9eb3ab25de.jpg?v=1778040210","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/machine-art-and-other-writings-ezra-pound-9780822317562","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}