The New York School’s Real Abstraction in Dickman
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Poetry, Contemporary poetry, New York School, Abstract Expressionism, 1960’s, Frank O’Hara, Barnett Newman, Michael Dickman, Surrealism, Art
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This paper looks at the contemporary poet Michael Dickman’s form and style through the lens of the Abstract Expressionist philosophy and art. The focus of this paper is how Dickman uses raw emotion and precise diction to convey a very real and sensitive world against New York School’s poet Frank O’Hara. As the New York School poets utilized the painters of the 1960’s for inspiration to get at the true essence of an event, emotion, or aspect of life, Dickman’s poetry is able to evoke a surrealist world that is also very real and violent. Themes of obsolescence that threads throughout the darker pieces and images of painters and poets could not accurately be describes or portrayed without complete freedom to use images and words in connection with one another. The idea of using strong images that are also short and sharp reflects painter Barnett Newman’s idea that the most abstract idea can be described in the most abstract ways, whether in lines of paint or lines of prose.
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