{"title":"Ut pictura poësis: William Demby's Writings and the Roman Visual Neo-Avant-Garde","authors":"Barbara Drudi","doi":"10.1353/afa.2022.0019","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the 1950s and '60s, beyond his circle of writers and poets, William Demby frequented the Roman art community: He kept company with young artists such as Toti Scialoja, Mimmo Rotella, Francesco Lo Savio, and Mario Schifano. My analysis of The Catacombs (1965) explores his intense relationship with the world of visual arts—to the extent that he himself actually worked on creative experiments of words and images in search of a possible integration (or contamination) between literature and painting. Working toward the definition of Demby's creative personality, I focus mainly on the reconstruction of the Roman artistic context, especially emphasizing the relationship between Demby and Italian artists and giving a detailed overview of the cultural situation that had an undeniable impact on Demby's creativity.","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0019","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, AMERICAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:In the 1950s and '60s, beyond his circle of writers and poets, William Demby frequented the Roman art community: He kept company with young artists such as Toti Scialoja, Mimmo Rotella, Francesco Lo Savio, and Mario Schifano. My analysis of The Catacombs (1965) explores his intense relationship with the world of visual arts—to the extent that he himself actually worked on creative experiments of words and images in search of a possible integration (or contamination) between literature and painting. Working toward the definition of Demby's creative personality, I focus mainly on the reconstruction of the Roman artistic context, especially emphasizing the relationship between Demby and Italian artists and giving a detailed overview of the cultural situation that had an undeniable impact on Demby's creativity.
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As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture. Between 1967 and 1976, the journal appeared under the title Negro American Literature Forum and for the next fifteen years was titled Black American Literature Forum. In 1992, African American Review changed its name for a third time and expanded its mission to include the study of a broader array of cultural formations.