书名：Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings、Poems、and Playlists (Ekphrasis) / 接近音乐的东西：晚期艺术著作、诗歌和播放列表（艺格敷词）
定价：99.0
ISBN：9781644230701
作者：John Ashbery and Monica de la Torre
版次：1
出版时间：2022-05

内容提要：

题 目：Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings、Poems、and Playlists (Ekphrasis) / 接近音乐的东西：晚期艺术著作、诗歌和播放列表（艺格敷词）

作 者：John Ashbery and Monica de la Torre

出 版：David Zwirner Books，2022

装 帧：平装，184页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：10.8*17.8 cm

 

 

By John Ashbery. Introduction by Mónica de la Torre. Selections and playlists by Jeffrey Lependorf

 

An intimate and unique collection of the work of John Ashbery—a prolific poet and art critic—pairing poetry and art writings with playlists of music from his personal library.

 

This book places poetry by Ashbery, gathered from his later collections, in conversation with a selection of contemporaneous art writing. In addition, as Ashbery loved music and listened to it while writing, the “playlists” here present samplings of music from these same years, culled from his own library of recordings.

 

Ashbery’s poetry is frequently described as ekphrastic, though, rather than writing a poem “based on” or “inspired” by the content of an artwork or piece of music, he engages with how the experience of seeing it and the artistic strategies employed offer ways of thinking about it and through it. Many observations from Ashbery’s art writing also provide keys to how we might read his poetry. Many recordings he listened to feature contemporary classical works that emphasize complex textures, disparate sounds, and disjunct phrases—qualities which are mimicked in his poetry.

 

In exploring this ekphrastic book project, the reader is invited to discover how, for Ashbery, these three forms might illuminate and inform one another. In Mónica de la Torre’s introduction, she explores the connection between the three muses of music, art, and poetry, and the ekphrastic experience of reading Ashbery.