Book contents
- Elizabeth Bishop in Context
- Elizabeth Bishop in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figure
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Referencing and Abbreviations
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Places
- Part II Forms
- Chapter 7 Lyric Poetry
- Chapter 8 Prose
- Chapter 9 Letters
- Chapter 10 Translation
- Chapter 11 Visual Art
- Chapter 12 Archives
- Part III Literary Contexts
- Part IV Politics, Society and Culture
- Part V Identity
- Part VI Reception and Criticism
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 11 - Visual Art
from Part II - Forms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2021
- Elizabeth Bishop in Context
- Elizabeth Bishop in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figure
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Referencing and Abbreviations
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Places
- Part II Forms
- Chapter 7 Lyric Poetry
- Chapter 8 Prose
- Chapter 9 Letters
- Chapter 10 Translation
- Chapter 11 Visual Art
- Chapter 12 Archives
- Part III Literary Contexts
- Part IV Politics, Society and Culture
- Part V Identity
- Part VI Reception and Criticism
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Elizabeth Bishop wrote with an awareness of developments in the visual arts at the beginning of the twentieth century, often seen as spearheading the Modernist movement in all the arts. As well as being a profoundly visual poet and sharing an interest in detailed description with her mentor Marianne Moore, Bishop also questioned the idea of a settled point of view and embraced both uncertainty and multiplicity in relation to seeing. Temperamentally she found an affinity with the idea of the Baroque in seventeenth-century writing and in the parallels with twentieth-century art drawn in art theory. Her early attraction to Surrealism also had to do with the disorientating effects of seeing and the uncertain boundary between inner and outer worlds. A writer who also painted herself, though in a small way, Bishop was always alert to issues of spatial representation, and how art and writing traced a similar process of their own emergence.
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- Elizabeth Bishop in Context , pp. 126 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021