Date of Award

2014

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Zamsky, Robert

Keywords

New York School, Poetry, Fine Arts, Art, American Culture

Area of Concentration

English Literature

Abstract

This thesis examines the relationship between the poets and painters of the New York School through the lens of intertextuality and exchange. Their shared space along with their close friendships engenders an intimate exchange of aesthetic sensibilities. John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, and Joe Brainard, three writers of the New York School, are paired with their visual contemporaries to demonstrate how exchange and intertextuality operates within their diverse body of work. This school of artists marks a drastic change in American artistic culture. And through their endless exchanges, the New York School challenges the ways in which we view and read works of visual and textual arts. This thesis synthesizes an array of materials and sources to fully integrate the textual with the visual, an interdisciplinary analysis to show how the School changed the avant-garde art scene in post-war American culture.

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