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OverviewFrank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism offers a ground-breaking account of the poet Frank O'Hara and the extraordinary cultural blossoming O'Hara catalysed, namely the mid-century experimental and multi-disciplinary arts scene, the New York School. Fresh accounts of canonical figures (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, George Balanchine, Fred Astaire) and original work on those too little discussed (Edwin Denby, Elaine de Kooning) resound with analysis of queer iconology from Michelangelo's David to James Dean. Sam Ladkin argues that O'Hara and the New York School revive Mannerism. Turning away from interpretations of O'Hara's Transcendentalism, Romanticism, or pastoralism, 'mid-century Mannerism' helps explain O'Hara's self-conscious style, its play with sweet and grand grace, contortion of conventional measure, risks with affectation, conceits, nonchalance, and scrambling of high/low culture. Mannerism clarifies the sociability implicit in the formal innovations of the New York School. The work also studies the kinship between art mediums by retooling rhetoric and recovering a perennial manneristic tendency beyond period style. Genealogies of grace, the figura serpentinata, sprezzatura, ornatus, and the marvellous exemplify qualities exhibited by O'Hara's New York School. Ladkin relates the essential role of dance in the New York School. O'Hara's reception has been tied to painting, predominantly Abstract Expressionism. He was also, however, a balletomane, a fan, for whom ballet was 'made up exclusively of qualities which other arts only aspire to in order to be truly modern.' Relaying ballet's Mannerist origins and aesthetics, and demonstrating its influence alongside Broadway and Hollywood musical-dance on art and poetry, completes the portrait of mid-century modernity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sam Ladkin (Senior Lecturer, Department of English Literature, Senior Lecturer, Department of English Literature, University of Sussex)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9780192866721ISBN 10: 0192866729 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 07 March 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface: The Paragone of the New York School Introduction: New York School Mannerism 1: Sprezzatura: Diligent Negligence 2: Grace: 'Joyous irony in the tenderest pathos' 3: Agon: 'The energy of contradictory actions' 4: Figura Serpentinata: 'And now it is the serpent's turn' 5: Frank Speech: 'The living ought to be alive in every part' 6: Marvellous: 'Remember life's marvellous' Conclusion: 'Style at its highest ebb is personality'ReviewsAuthor InformationSam Ladkin is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex, having taught previously at the universities of Sheffield, Cork, and Cambridge. He has published articles on Tom Raworth, Walt Whitman, Rob Halpern, amongst others, and is the co-editor of five collections of poetry and essays, most recently Against Value in the Arts & Education (2016). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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