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“This Is Just to Say This Is the End of Art: Williams and the Aesthetic Attitude” “这只是说这是艺术的终结:威廉姆斯和审美态度”

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW Pub Date : 2016-12-22 DOI: 10.1353/WCW.2016.0004

D. Morris

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Painting Williams, Reading Demuth: “The Great Figure” and I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold 绘画威廉姆斯，阅读德穆斯:“伟大的人物”和我看到了黄金中的数字5

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW Pub Date : 2016-12-22 DOI: 10.1353/WCW.2016.0002

Daniel R. Schwarz

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Form and Experience: Williams, Dewey, and the Origins of American Postmodernism 形式与经验:威廉斯、杜威与美国后现代主义的起源

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW Pub Date : 2016-12-22 DOI: 10.1353/WCW.2016.0003

S. Fredman

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The Abstract Expressionist Housewife: Fracture, Transposition, Williams and the Three Phases of Modernism 抽象表现主义家庭主妇:断裂、换位、威廉姆斯与现代主义的三个阶段

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW Pub Date : 2016-12-22 DOI: 10.1353/WCW.2016.0010

S. Miller

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Thin and Tantalizing: The Armory Show at 100 瘦而诱人:100年的军械库展览

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW Pub Date : 2016-12-22 DOI: 10.1353/wcw.2016.0001

L. Siraganian

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The Poem on the Page, or the Visual Poetics of William Carlos Williams 《书页上的诗》或《威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯的视觉诗学

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW Pub Date : 2016-12-22 DOI: 10.1353/WCW.2016.0007

P. Halter

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Destruction and Universals in William Carlos Williams’s The Wedge 威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯的《楔子》中的毁灭与普遍性

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW Pub Date : 2016-12-22 DOI: 10.1353/WCW.2016.0011

Barrett Watten

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Improvisation at the Armory Show: An Approach to Understanding Wassily Kandinsky’s Influence on the Writings of William Carlos Williams 军械库展览中的即兴创作:解读瓦西里·康定斯基对威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯作品的影响

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW Pub Date : 2016-12-22 DOI: 10.1353/WCW.2016.0006

Paul R. Cappucci

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Ecocriticism and the Modern Artist’s Notice of Nature 生态批评与现代艺术家对自然的关注

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW Pub Date : 2016-12-22 DOI: 10.1353/WCW.2016.0008

Iris Ralph

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Ways of Seeing Williams’s “Pictures from Brueghel” 看威廉姆斯“来自勃鲁盖尔的画”的方式

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW Pub Date : 2016-12-22 DOI: 10.1353/WCW.2016.0005

Charlotte Kent

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