Remaking the conquering heroes

Description:

"Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures is the first book-length study of the aesthetic similarities between the French Parnassians, a nineteenth-century group of poets led by Theophile Gautier, and the Russian Acmeist poets, including Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova, who were active in the second decade of the twentieth century. The Acmeists shared with the Parnassians a classical sensibility, an aspiration to state-of-the-art verbal craftsmanship, and a keen interest in the three-dimensional, physical world. Their love of plastic beauty as embodied in painting, sculpture, and architecture found natural release in verse about works of art. The book shows how Acmeist texts document aspects of Russian Modernist culture while continuing the Parnassian tradition of poetry inspired by visual art."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Armed Forces,  History,  Military Sociology,  Military policy,  Russian poetry,  Art and literature,  Parnassianism,  History and criticism,  French poetry,  Acmeism,  Words in art,  Ekphrasis,  Sociology, military,  United states, armed forces, history,  Germany, history, 1945-1990,  United states, military policy,  Arts and society

Places: Germany,  United States

Times: 1945-1955,  20th century