...Kenneth Surin 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Kenneth Surin Getting the Picture: Donald Davidson on Robert Morris’s Blind Time Drawings IV (Drawing with Davidson...

...George R. Elliott Copyright © 1928 by Duke University Press 1928 HARDY S POETRY AND THE GHOSTLY MOVING-PICTURE GEORGE R. ELLIOTT Amherst College WHILE the novels of Thomas Hardy are widely admired in the United States, his poetry is neglected. It is not followed in the reviews and magazines...

... synthesis of the subject yet published. Alexander deconde The Desolate South 1865-1866: A Picture of the Battlefields and the Devastated Confederacy. By John T. Trowbridge. Edited by Gordon Carroll. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1956. Pp. xvi, 320. $6.00. In August, 1865, John T. Trowbridge...

...Stephen Melville Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Stephen Melville Picturing Japan: Reflections on the Workshop My involvement with questions about post­ modernity began some seven or eight years ago in the context of claims being advanced on behalf of certain visual works...

...Kent Blaser Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 "Pictures from Life s Other Side : Hank Williams, Country Music, and Popular Culture in America Kent Blaser On i January 1953, Hank Williams, on an all night road trip to a New Years Day performance at Canton, Ohio, died in the back...

...Margaret Davis Copyright © 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 GREAT DISMAL PICTURES* MARGARET DAVIS Landscape and Legend GREEN SEA, Bear Garden, Bear Quarter run the names of some of Great Dismal s remoter settlements. Sun­ ray, Smoky-town, Magnolia rim its edge. Corapeake, a high point...

...Robert H. Woody The New World. The First Pictures Of America, Made by John White and Jacques Le Moyne and Engraved by Theodore De Bry, With Contemporary Narratives of the Huguenot Settlement In Florida, 1562–1565, And The Virginia Colony, 1585–1590 . Edited and Annotated by Lorant Stefan...

... critical—tainted by the particularity of religious tradition and thus disqualified from the alleged universality of secular reason. On this account, critical thought could be informed only by secular reason. Criticism, in this picture, is bound up with the disenchantment of the world. This confidence...

...Alexei Penzin The article provides an introduction and context for this section of Against the Day, which analyzes the ongoing protests in Russia. The mainstream interpretations of Russian events create a stereotypical picture formed by liberal narratives as a struggle with an authoritarian regime...

... were a decade removed from Ed­ win S. Porter s The Great Train Robbery (1904), the first picture of any topical or technical stature, and a decade away from the consolidations of the twenties which would lead to the era of the monolithic studios. Preoccupied with the fiscal and aesthetic in­ tricacies...

..., 1959, a man walked into the room where the picture is exhibited and hurled a large quantity of paint remover onto the picture. The liquid hit somewhere near the top of the painting [Fig. 1] and ran down its front, spreading as it went and dividing into rivulets of varying widths. The attack...

.... It reduces a large and widely acclaimed work to capsule size, and it conveys much of its meaning through pictures. The five volumes of Van Wyck Brooks s literary history, Makers and F'mders, have been cut to less than one-sixth of the original text; more than five hundred pictures have been included. Yet Our...

... at Hampton Institute in Virginia. This picture has been called sentimental genre by some critics, but like Eakins The Pathetic Song it has a quality the ordinary storytelling pic­ ture lacks. In the figure of the old man teaching the little boy to play the banjo the dignity and pathos of old age...

... or a spy, doing something illegal by taking pictures of someone else s relatives. But let me tell you it is impossible to read anything other than good will into those happy faces. The characters do demonstrate body language, which I ll ex­ plain later. But it was absurd to imagine Mickey making an accusa­...

... according to Time and Newsweek maga­ zines: the headline to Robert Hughes s review in Time labeled Constable The Wordsworth of Landscape, and in Newsweek John Ashbery called Constable s pictures the embodiment of Wordsworth s pastoral poetry. Despite this received opinion, I think that Wordsworth s...

... on the reality, and will inevitably offend our allies, for whom this reality is, indeed, something exceedingly real. It will simply serve to con­ vince them further that we in this country don t understand the real meaning of war.1 Such was the acerbic reaction of Derk Bodde to a proposed Columbia Pictures...

... The photograph shows a clearing that extends to a low forest, more wild growth than for­ est, which holds a view hemmed in by short pines. The picture s elongated format invites us to explore, to scan the image with our eyes and see if the sky will not open up entirely when we advance into the clearing just...

..., and it conveys much of its meaning through pictures. The five volumes of Van Wyck Brooks s literary history, Makers and F'mders, have been cut to less than one-sixth of the original text; more than five hundred pictures have been included. Yet Our Literary Heritage has worth not implied in this description...

... about him are few, and their texts are short and often marred by errors of fact; there exists a catalogue raisonne, but no serious attempt has been made to dis­ tinguish his authentic oils from the numerous fakes or from medi­ ocre pictures by contemporaries who worked in a somewhat similar vein...

... and vagueness go together. Students already assume that words add up to form ideas. When they were younger they knew some­ thing much simpler which fiction must rediscover: words make pictures. In The ABC of Reading, Ezra Pound contrasted the Eastern ideograph or picture-word with the abstract language...