A blog on modernist literary and image cultures by members of English 436 at SUNY Brockport.
Monday, February 9, 2015
I found it very interesting that a parallel can be drawn to connect the rise in Modernist literature to the to the endorsement of the Museum of Modern Arts in the 1930's. It seems that many modernist writers played off the visual arts, inspiring a new wave of literature that the world hadn't seen before. Authors such as Ezra Pound and Mina Loy manged to captivate their readers with a new, more abstract way of writing. This style could be drawn to the recent evolution of the visual arts. The Cubism movement encouraged people to draw their own concepts to an abstract image. With such fascination in these movements, modernists began to adapt the same concepts to their literature. I believe that these concepts can be seen both is Ezra Pounds Liu Ch'e as well as Mina Loy's Virgins plus curtains minus dots. The single view point of cubism was reflected in both of these pieces of literature,this effects the audience in the same way that a visual artist would use cubism.
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