書誌事項

Figures & figurations

Octavio Paz, Marie José Paz ; translated by Eliot Weinberger ; afterword by Yves Bonnefoy ; translated by Esther Allen

New Directions Book, 2002

  • : cloth

タイトル別名

:Figuras y figuraciones

Figures and figurations

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注記

Translation of: Figuras y figuraciones

"Bilingual edition."--Jacket

Originally published: Barcelona : Galaxia Gutenberg : Círculo de Lectores, 1999

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A beautiful collaboration between husband and wife. His poems to her collages, call and response from Mexico's greatest poet. "Marie Jose's constructions and boxes are three-dimensional objects transfigured by her imagination and her sensibility into visual ideas, mental enigmas, bearers of bizarre and disturbing images, or of ironic perceptions. More than things to be seen, they are wings for traveling, sails for wandering and wondering, mirrors through which to cross." Octavio Paz Figures & Figurations, one of the last books completed by the late Mexican poet Octavio Paz before his death in 1998, is a collaborative effort with his wife of thirty years, the artist Marie Jose Paz. In response to ten of her collage-constructions, he wrote ten new short poems; she in turn created two new artworks in response to two of his earlier poems. Twelve poems, twelve pieces of art reproduced in full color, in a book first published in Spanish in 1999 and now appearing in a bilingual edition. In addition to the poems and collage-constructions, Figures & Figurations includes an essay by Octavio Paz on Marie Jose Paz's work, "The Whitecaps of Time," in which he relates how her friendship with Joseph Cornell became a stimulus for her assemblages and how she was further spurred on by other friends, such as Roman Jakobson and Elizabeth Bishop. "These objects sometime surprise us," he writes, "sometimes make us laugh or dream. Signs that invite us to a motionless voyage of fantasy, bridges to the infinitely small or galactic distances, windows that open on to nowhere. The art of Marie Jose is a dialogue between here and there."

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA7093255X
  • ISBN
    • 0811215245
  • LCCN
    2002008697
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    engspa
  • 原本言語コード
    spa
  • 出版地
    New York, N.Y.
  • ページ数/冊数
    56 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
  • 分類
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