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Material witness : the selected letters of Fairfield Porter / edited by Ted Leigh ; introduction by David Lehman ; with additional notes by Justin Spring.
- Title
- Material witness : the selected letters of Fairfield Porter / edited by Ted Leigh ; introduction by David Lehman ; with additional notes by Justin Spring.
- Author
- Porter, Fairfield
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | N6537.P63 A3 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 350 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Fairfield Porter (1907-75) has been called by poet John Ashbery "perhaps the major American artist of the century." He was also known as a gifted art critic." "Beyond shedding light on his personal views, this collection of Fairfield Porter's letters demonstrates his contribution to American art and literature and displays his acumen as a political critic. The letters tell the story of a reserved artist and intellectual, torn between the tensions and pressures he felt among politics, family life, and painting - a man who forged a painting style outside the politically correct artistic perceptions of both left and right." "The collection includes letters from Porter's early travels to the Soviet Union, including a description of an interview with Trotsky, as well as some of his later letters to close friends, including Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, Rod Padgett, Larry Rivers, and James Schuyler, among others. While the letters reveal many sides of the brilliant and independent-minded Porter, they also provide a cultural context for the time period and the circle of artists and poets with whom Porter associated. The letters not only tell a story of the artist himself but are also valuable documents of the political and artistic upheavals of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s." "This collection is introduced by poet and critic David Lehman and includes notes by Justin Spring, author of Porter's biography."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Records and correspondence
- Records and correspondence.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0472109766 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2004019091
- OCLC
- 56214140
- SCSB-10016341
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library