The Pool Group and the Quest for Anthropological Universality
The Pool Group and the Quest for Anthropological Universality:
The Humane Images of Modernism
by Betsy van Schlun
English | 2017 | ISBN: 3110439212 | 476 Pages | EPUB | 11 MB
The Humane Images of Modernism
by Betsy van Schlun
English | 2017 | ISBN: 3110439212 | 476 Pages | EPUB | 11 MB
Pool was an avant-garde group that originated in 1927 in Britain and was active under this name until 1933. The group consisted of the well-known modernist poet H.D., the English writer Bryher, and the young Scottish writer and artist Kenneth Macpherson. All three were first and foremost writers, who at one point discovered film as another modern, experimental medium of artistic expression. Pool associated with almost all the iconic modernists of their time, with Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemmingway, James Joyce, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, to name only a few. In addition, due to their interest in film, they were also befriended with such influential filmmakers as Sergei Eisenstein and Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and became closely associated with Weimar Berlin film culture.