- 著者
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金田 由紀子
- 出版者
- 日本比較文学会
- 雑誌
- 比較文学 (ISSN:04408039)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.41, pp.21-35, 1999-03-31 (Released:2017-06-17)
This paper discusses how Frank O’Hara (1926-66) achieved his stylistic innovation in his poetry through his profound knowledge of the paintings of the New York School. Though what actually happened was an interaction between literature and the visual arts, the discussion will mainly focus on the aesthetic significance of the paintings on the formation of O’Hara’s poetics and style. When O’Hara began getting his poems published in Michigan and New York in the early fifties, the New Criticism and academic verse were still exerting a strong influence on American poetry. O’Hara, an art critic as well as a poet, dissatisfied with the stylistic mannerisms of academic verse and blessed with great opportunities to familialize himself with the avant-garde paintings of his time, created his idiosyncratic style by applying the stylistic innovations of the New York School paintings to his poetry. Of O’Hara’ aesthetic responses to the New York School paintings, the most significant is their expressionist aspect, that is, how the artist’s self should be represented in his/her work, because that was the most urgent problem for O’Hara when he began writing poetry. This paper focuses on O’Hara’s expressionist aesthics, and is divided into three parts: its relation to his early art criticism , the second generation painters of the New York School, and early examples of Pop Art. In each part, the discussion will elucidate how O’Hara’s poetics and new style evolved from his aesthetic contact with the art of his day.