6 Time, Speed, Precision and the Poetry of the Everyday; or, Ezra Pound’s Cinema Aesthetic

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. List of Abbreviations ix
5. A Brief Introduction 1
6. PART I FOUNDATIONS
7. 1 ‘Mermaids, that Carving’: Ezra Pound and Italian Art 7
8. 2 ‘TEMPLUM AEDIFICAVIT’: Ezra Pound and Architecture 38
9. 3 Ezra Pound and East Asian Art 61
10. 4 Ezra Pound and Old Music 78
11. 5 Ezra Pound: Premier Danseur by Proxy 87
12. 6 Time, Speed, Precision and the Poetry of the Everyday; or, Ezra Pound’s Cinema Aesthetic 106
13. PART II THE LONDON PERIOD 1908–1920
14. 7 Ezra Pound and Nineteenth-Century Aestheticism: Sharing ‘Breath for Beauty and the Arts’ with Rossetti and Pater 139
15. 8 Ezra Pound and James McNeill Whistler: Modernism and Conceptual Art 157
16. 9 Ezra Pound and Walter Rummel 177
17. 10 ‘Museum Pieces’: Laurence Binyon, Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts 183
18. 11 Into the Vortex: Ezra Pound, Anarchism and the Ideological Project of Art Criticism 193
19. 12 ‘Intelligence . . . Shut in by the Entrenched Forces of Stupidity’: Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis 214
20. 13 Vorticist Photography, or The Three Angles of Ezra Pound and Alvin Langdon Coburn 231
21. 14 ‘Creation and Action’: Ezra Pound and Italian Futurism 247
22. 15 Ezra Pound and Wassily Kandinsky: Inner Necessity and the PARADISO TERRESTRE 260
23. 16 Agnes Bedford: An Invisible Helpmate 273
24. PART III PARIS 1921–1924
25. 17 Constantin Brâncuşi, Vorticist: Sculpture, Art Criticism, Poetry 281
26. 18 Percussive Music for a Triangle: Ezra Pound’s Relationship with George Antheil and Olga Rudge 305
27. 19 ‘Like Coins out of Circulation’: Reframing Ezra Pound’s LE TESTAMENT 334
28. 20 Ezra Pound as Music Theorist: ANTHEIL AND THE TREATISE ON HARMONY 347
29. 21 The Expansion of a Theory: Great Bass and BALLET MÉCANIQUE 359
30. 22 Renaissance Man: Ezra Pound’s Search for a Contemporary Colour Palette Through His Solo Violin Works 376
31. PART IV THE ITALIAN YEARS 1925–1945
32. 23 Ezra Pound’s Artistic Thinking and Relations in Italy, 1925–1945 395
33. 24 Music Recollected: Ezra Pound’s CAVALCANTI 415
34. 25 VIDA SIN FIN: Ezra Pound and Gerhart Münch 445
35. PART V WASHINGTON: MENTORING THE YOUNG IN THE 1950s
36. 26 Sheri Martinelli: The White Goddess 461
37. 27 Art ‘in the Solid’: Ezra Pound and Michael Lekakis 477
38. 28 A ‘Transference of Power’: Ezra Pound and the Cinema of Hollis Frampton 483
39. Notes on Contributors 503
40. Bibliography 509
41. Index 539