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  • Chapter 5 - The Visual Field

  • from Part I - Pound’s Texts
  • Edited by Mark Byron, University of Sydney
  • Book:
    The New Ezra Pound Studies
    Published online:
    17 October 2019
    Print publication:
    07 November 2019, pp 72-87

  • Summary

    In the introduction to her recent study Reading Cy Twombly, Mary Jacobus sets her interpretation of the artist’s work against those of critics who read the names, titles and quotations in his paintings as, on the one hand, self-expressive (‘sighs, expressions of pleasure or regret’), and on the other, directed towards the creation of a repository of cultural memory. ‘As opposed to a high-humanizing reading of Twombly’s art’, she writes, ‘I want to sidestep the debate in order to recover the specifically twentieth-century avant-garde context for his practice of quotation and allusion – his anthology – by tracing its relation to American literary Modernism, and in particular, Ezra Pound’. Twombly briefly attended Black Mountain College, encountering Pound’s writings and ideas through Charles Olson, and Jacobus turns to Pound’s ABC of Reading (1934) as a particularly clarifying lens through which to read Twombly..