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Showcases Ezra Pound's close involvement with the arts throughout his career The present volume of new, interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the arts with which Pound had a lifelong interaction including architecture, ballet, cinema, music, painting, photography and sculpture. Divided into 5 historically and thematically arranged sections, the 28 chapters foreground the shifting significance of art forms throughout Pound's life which he spent in London, Paris, Rapallo and Washington. The Companion maps Pound's practices of engagement with the arts, deepening areas of study that have recently emerged, such as his musical compositions. At the same time, it opens up new fields, particularly Pound's interaction with the performing arts: opera, dance, and cinema. The volume demonstrates overall that Ezra Pound was no mere spectator of the modernist revolution in the arts; rather he was an agent of change, a doer and promoter who also had a deep emotional response to the arts. Key Features: The first book to gather together all the different aspects of the subject of Pound and the artsChaptersare devoted to topics never covered before: (cinema; political anarchism; early music; Agnes Bedford; the artists Munch, Lekakis, Martinelli, Frampton) Presents the ways Pound's interests and activities in the arts change over time in a continuous story, from his beginnings to his old ageIncludes portraits of friendships and short biographies of artists connected to Pound, showing his personal impact in the arts world

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This encyclopedic Companion is an eloquent testament to the astonishing range of Pound's life-long reception of the arts from Quattrocento sculpture to individual artists like Whistler and Kandinsky, to avant-garde cinema, ballet, and chamber music. Both archival and analytical, the Companion provides us with a new understanding of Pound's very particular aesthetic in its specific cultural contexts.-- ""Marjorie Perloff, author of The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre and the Language of Rupture""

"This encyclopedic Companion is an eloquent testament to the astonishing range of Pound's life-long reception of the arts from Quattrocento sculpture to individual artists like Whistler and Kandinsky, to avant-garde cinema, ballet, and chamber music. Both archival and analytical, the Companion provides us with a new understanding of Pound's very particular aesthetic in its specific cultural contexts.-- ""Marjorie Perloff, author of The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre and the Language of Rupture"""

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Roxana Preda is Researcher and Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and currently engaged in work on The Cantos Project, a digital research environment dedicated to Ezra Pound's major poem, The Cantos. She currently serves as the President of Ezra Pound Society and is senior editor of the society digital quarterly, Make It New, which she created in 2014.

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