Poet among painters

• Autor(a) principal: Perloff, Marjorie
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Mattoso, Ana Clara, Brandão, Augusto Melo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Poiésis (Niterói. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/poiesis/article/view/50654
• topic: Frank O’Hara; Marjorie Perloff; Poetry; Painting; Literature in the expanded field; Frank O’Hara; Marjorie Perloff; Poesía; Pintura; Literatura en campo ampliado; Frank O’Hara; Marjorie Perloff; Poesia; Pintura; Literatura no campo expandido

The essay approaches the relations between Frank O’Hara’s poetry and painting, especially with the abstract expressionism avant-garde artists in New York scene during the 1950s and 1960s. The text integrates the third chapter of the homonymous book, written by Marjorie Perloff, yet unreleased in Portuguese. Analyzing the relations between O’Hara and visual artists from an affective, intellectual, professional and creative perspective, Perloff emphasizes the formal experimentations of the author whose poetry was directly impacted by action painting, happening and his role as art critic and curator at MOMA. The essay presents two artistic collaborations of O’Hara with Larry Rivers and Norman Bluhm, referred by Perloff as Poem-Paintings, given their formal in-between space, poet and painter acting simultaneously on the same surface. In O’Hara’s lyric, poetry and painting reveal themselves to be, after all, parts from the same living substance.  (Abstract and Keywords written by the translators).