Shlomo G. Shoham, J.J.M. Ashkenasy, G. Rahav, F. Chard, A. Addi and M. Addad
Ashgate
Hardback
246
1995
David Jones, Artist and Poet brings together thirteen centenary essays with an introduction by the editor, Paul Hills. The diversity of contributors - literary critics, a cultural historian, an art historian, an engraver, a painter, and poets - indicates the broad sustained pertinence of David Jones?»s art, ideas and example as a maker. Several contributors reveal the interconnections between his engraved books of the 1920s and his later poems, notably The Anathemata. Others offer fresh perspectives on his idea of art, his understanding of history and the role of his Catholicism. His knowledge of Welsh culture and history is richly documented in one essay, and in another a French scholar and poet judges his European sense as far truer than that of Eliot or Pound. Several touch upon the part played by animals in Jones?»s figuring of redemptive journeys. Far from being sidelined as a Celtic mystic, David Jones emerges from this volume as a man whose meditation on the erosion of sign-making addresses our post-modern dilemmas.
Ashgate
Hardback
246
1995
David Jones, Artist and Poet brings together thirteen centenary essays with an introduction by the editor, Paul Hills. The diversity of contributors - literary critics, a cultural historian, an art historian, an engraver, a painter, and poets - indicates the broad sustained pertinence of David Jones?»s art, ideas and example as a maker. Several contributors reveal the interconnections between his engraved books of the 1920s and his later poems, notably The Anathemata. Others offer fresh perspectives on his idea of art, his understanding of history and the role of his Catholicism. His knowledge of Welsh culture and history is richly documented in one essay, and in another a French scholar and poet judges his European sense as far truer than that of Eliot or Pound. Several touch upon the part played by animals in Jones?»s figuring of redemptive journeys. Far from being sidelined as a Celtic mystic, David Jones emerges from this volume as a man whose meditation on the erosion of sign-making addresses our post-modern dilemmas.