First edition

EZRA | POUND | and the | visual | arts | Edited with an introduction by Harriet Zinnes | 125

xxiv, 322 pp., incl. front. (port.) 6 illus. on 3 plates. 23.6 x 16cm. Brown cloth boards lettered in gold on spine; end-papers. White dust-jacket printed in brown.

Published 24 November 1980 at $25.95; 1900 copies printed. On verso of titleleaf: ... Manufactured in the United States of America First published clothbound by New Directions in 1980 ... New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 80 Eighth Avenue, New York roorr

The frontispiece is a reproduction of a vortograph of Ezra Pound made in 1917 by Alvin Langdon Coburn. “This volume is composed not only of articles in various periodicals ... , but also of those materials in books and letters that relate to the subject of the visual arts.... A decision has been made ... to include... only more or less extended comments or comments which, though repeated elsewhere, are in one particular place expressed with special perception or concision.” (“Preface,” p. vii)

Contents: Preface [by the editor]—Introduction [by the editor]|—1 SELECTIONS FROM THE NEW AGE: Whistler [excerpt from “Patria mia, II” —C49]|—America: Chances and Remedies [V]. Proposition III: The College of the Arts—Afhrmations [Il]: Vorticism; [III]: Jacob Epstein; [V]: Gaudier-Brzeska—Synchromatism—A fhrmations [VI]: Analysis of This Decade—Provincialism the Enemy, Ill [excerpt]; IV [excerpt|—Art Notes: At Heal’s; The Loan Exhibition at the Grafton—Letters [sic] to the Editor: ... Art [C324]—Art [Notes]: The New English Art Club—Art, and Pastels—Art Notes: The National Portrait Society; Processes; Water; At the Alpine Club Gallery; Water, Still More of It; “GAUDIERBRZESKA”—The Royal Academy—Art Notes: Still the Academy; The International; [Paul] Nash, Nicholson, Orpen; The Tenth London Salon of the Allied Artists Association; “Fresh Wholesome Sentiment”; Buildings, I; Building: Ornamentation!; Kinema, Kinesis, Hepworth, Etc.; Parallelograms; Super-fronts; Leicester Gallery, Etchings; Jean de Bosschére, and the Less Fortunate; Canadian War Memorial: A Commendation; Canada, and the Remnants; Navy, Mostyn, Lithography, Ete—Wyndham Lewis at the Goupil—Art Notes [C446, 451, 452, 454, 455, and 458]—Art Notes: Rutter’s Adelphi Gallery—Art Notes [C464]—Art Notes: Five Ordeals: By Water, Capt. Guy Baker’s Collection at the South Kensington Museum—Art Notes [C504, 512, 518, 526, 529, and 534|— Art and Luxury—Art Notes [C43]}—Art Notes: The Functions of Criticism— Credit and the Fine Arts: A Practical Application—2 VORTICIST PUBLICATIONS: Blast [a note written for the projected “Collected Prose”|—Vortex: Pound— “Et faim sallir le loup des boys” and “Dogmatic Statement on the Game and Play of Chess [from C194]—The Vortographs [from B13]—3 SELECTIONS FROM MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS: The Curse—Demarcations—That Audience, or The Bugaboo of the Public—Epstein, Belgion and Meaning—[Review of] Stones of Rimini [by Adrian Stokes|—Paris Letter, December, 1921 [C633]; December, 1922 [C650]; February, 1923 [C651]—Total War on “Contemplatio”—The New Sculpture—Exhibition at the Goupil Gallery—The Caressability of the Greeks— Wyndham Lewis [C146]—Edward Wadsworth, Vorticist—Gaudier: A Postscript 1934—The Public Convenience [from C689|—Vorticism—The Death of Vorticism—Sculpshure—Brancusi—Historical Survey—The Biennale—Ma126 chines—To Whistler, American—Ezra Pound Files Exceptions—The Symposium [review of The Quattro Cento, by Adrian Stokes}—The War and Diverse Impressions—q SELECTIONS FROM THE [UNPUBLISHED] JOHN QUINN CORRESPONDENCE—5 SELECTIONS FROM PUBLISHED BOOKS: Excerpts from ABC of Reading— Excerpts from Ezra Pound and Music—Preface to the Memorial Exhibition [of Gaudier-Brzeska] 1918 [B18]}—Excerpts from Guide 10 Kulchur—Selections from Impact—Selections from Literary Essays—Excerpt from Polite Essays—From Ripostes—From Selected Letters—From [The] Translations —6 SELECTIONS FROM UNCOLLECTED MANUSCRIPTS AND PAPERS: [Letters, or excerpts from letters, to Mr. and/or Mrs. Homer L. Pound, Harriet Monroe, Edward Wadsworth, Jeanne Robert Foster, Henry Allen Moe [on Wyndham Lewis], and Editor, The Listener|—The Best in English [excerpt from an article sent to Harriet Monroe during May 1915, presumably for Poetrry}—Tentative Propositions or Outline for Discussion [on machines]—Collected Prose [notes for the projected edition}—Brancusi and Human Sculpture—Albert C. Barnes—GLOSSARY—INDEX.