The Pool Group and the Quest for Anthropological Universality : : The Humane Images of Modernism / / Betsy van Schlun.

Pool was an avant-garde group that originated in 1927 in Britain and was active under this name until 1933. The group consisted of the well-known modernist poet H.D., the English writer Bryher, and the young Scottish writer and artist Kenneth Macpherson. All three were first and foremost writers, wh...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
©2017
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 55
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 462 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I. Theory The Spirit of the Quest
  • 2. The Autonomy and the Necessity of Art
  • Part II. Technique and Style Towards a Universal Language of Art
  • 3. A Language Composed of Images and E/motion
  • Part III. Philosophy The Quest for a Universal Foundation of Human Life
  • 4. Universal Sympathy and Universal Man: Pool’s Avant-gardist New Humanism
  • Part IV. Works of Love Pool’s Humane Art or: Their Artistic Body
  • 5. POOL Novels
  • 6. Films by POOL Productions
  • 7. POOL Architecture: The Villa KenWin
  • 8. Close Up – A Popular Forum for Film and Film Culture
  • Part V. ~ The End ~
  • 9. Conclusion: The Disintegrating Body of Pool and the Spirit of Art
  • Works Cited
  • Index of names
  • Index of Subjects