{"product_id":"frank-oharas-new-york-school-and-mid-century-mannerism-perfectly-disgraceful-hardcover","title":"Frank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism: Perfectly Disgraceful - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSam Ladkin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSam 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe work also studies the kinship between art mediums by retooling rhetoric and recovering a perennial manneristic tendency beyond period style. Genealogies of grace, the \u003cem\u003efigura serpentinata\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003esprezzatura\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eornatus\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam Ladkin, \u003cem\u003eSenior Lecturer, Department of English Literature, University of Sussex\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSam 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 \u003cem\u003eAgainst Value in the Arts \u0026amp; Education\u003c\/em\u003e (2016).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.6 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 07, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736544546879,"sku":"9780192866721","price":225.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2d829dd78135906cb4f0ab033bf771ed.webp?v=1765147010","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/frank-oharas-new-york-school-and-mid-century-mannerism-perfectly-disgraceful-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}