tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post112120545168128068..comments2023-06-02T17:54:44.641+02:00Comments on Connaissances: Cubist poetryJonathan Wonhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-4188360108111460912009-04-05T14:36:00.000+02:002009-04-05T14:36:00.000+02:00JuneThere is a short paragraph on wikipedia Cubism...June<BR/><BR/>There is a short paragraph on wikipedia <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism" REL="nofollow">Cubism in other fields</A> which lists a number of French poets influenced by cubism and a couple of American ones. I would look first at the work of Gertrude Stein who was a friend of Picasso and then you might also try to find some work by the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E school of poets, for example Joe Ross. His book called Equations = Equals is a book I would highly recommend.Jonathan Wonhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-34202917471071933252009-04-05T06:47:00.000+02:002009-04-05T06:47:00.000+02:00Thank you Jonathan.I'd so much appreciate if you c...Thank you Jonathan.<BR/><BR/>I'd so much appreciate if you can direct me to some good works on cubist poetry.<BR/><BR/>I'm experimenting on this genre and was actually surfing the web for more of such work;it is then that I came across your blog Treasure trove). <BR/><BR/>I'll try to keep in mind the points you mentioned. Let me try on sounds, as well as the texture of languaage (tactileness). I'd certainly love it as it'll break the banality.<BR/><BR/>Thanks so much for this help. <BR/>Respect,<BR/>June.<BR/><BR/>PS. I'm linking your blog.June Nandy Chaudhurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14406043787953913978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-59380612684788486062009-04-04T19:56:00.000+02:002009-04-04T19:56:00.000+02:00Hello JuneThanks for your comments.This article wa...Hello June<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your comments.<BR/><BR/>This article was an examination of a possible process by which cubist art was made. A sort of cookbook.<BR/><BR/>The are two steps: simplification then illusionistic complexification. To answer your question about colour, perhaps this could be applied in the second step?<BR/><BR/>As for jaggedness, that is a good question. I don't think the cubists would have worried too much about the jaggedness, and I don't think the poet should either. Jaggedness is a part of the modern. It is a reaction against art which has a finished appearance with all rough edges smoothed off.<BR/><BR/>Your third question, about the uniqueness of cubist work is also perceptive. Why is cubist painting not like surrealist painting? I think it is because it was to do more with the physical material of the artist (paint, woood, texture) than with the content of the painting. If cubist poetry was similarly interested in the texture of language, the sounds it made, and not the meaning, then it would not come close to surrealism.<BR/><BR/>Best wishes, JonathanJonathan Wonhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-66467553273955918162009-04-04T19:02:00.000+02:002009-04-04T19:02:00.000+02:00Informative blog. Thank you so much.Couple of ques...Informative blog. Thank you so much.<BR/><BR/>Couple of questions.:<BR/><BR/>1. Since there is minimal colours used in cubist painting...should the cubist poetry distance itself from spectrum of colours?<BR/><BR/>2. Okay, I break the surface into objects (geometrical) and then construct a whole, does that mean I will not smoothen the jaggedness..and let it be...so that the reader completes the visual?<BR/><BR/>3.I find, the words tend to synergise the cubist and the surrealist technique, what remains so unique in paintings? Is there a way to give them their individuality?<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure, I was clear enough in my questions....<BR/><BR/>Hope to read your answer Sir.<BR/><BR/>June NandyJune Nandy Chaudhurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14406043787953913978noreply@blogger.com