John Ashbery and the Aesthetics of Nature
by
Stephen J. Ross
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), the American poet John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much of modern art: 'How could he explain to them his prayer / that nature, not art, might usurp the canvas?' When Ashbery asks this strange question, he joins a host of...