{"product_id":"criminal-ingenuity-moore-cornell-ashbery-and-the-struggle-between-the-arts-modernist-literature-and-culture-9780199746354","title":"Criminal Ingenuity: Moore  Cornell  Ashbery  and the Struggle Between the Arts (Modernist Literature and Culture)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Poetry was declining\/ Painting advancing\/ we were complaining\/ it was 50 \" recalled poet Frank OHara in 1957. Criminal Ingenuity traces a series of linked moments in the history of this transfer of cultural power from the sphere of the word to that of the image. Ellen Levy explores the New York literary and art worlds in the years that bracket OHaras lament through close readings of the works and careers of poets Marianne Moore and John Ashbery and assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. In the course of these readings  Levy discusses such topics as the American debates around surrealism  the function of the \"token woman\" in artistic canons  and the role of the New York City Ballet in the development of mid-century modernism  and situates her central figures in relation to such colleagues and contemporaries as OHara  T. S. Eliot  Clement Greenberg  Walter Benjamin  and Lincoln Kirstein.  Moore  Cornell  and Ashbery are connected by acquaintance and affinity-and above all  by the possession of what Moore calls \"criminal ingenuity \" a talent for situating themselves on the fault lines that fissure the realms of art  sexuality  and politics. As we consider their lives and works  Levy shows  the seemingly specialized question of the source and meaning of the struggle for power between art forms inexorably opens out to broader questions about social and artistic institutions and forces: the academy and the museum  professionalism and the market  and that institution of institutions  marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652522991669,"sku":"ByrdShop_0199746354","price":100.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780199746354.jpg?v=1781851863","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/criminal-ingenuity-moore-cornell-ashbery-and-the-struggle-between-the-arts-modernist-literature-and-culture-9780199746354","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}