James Laughlin correspondence with Vanessa Jackson

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James Laughlin correspondence with Vanessa Jackson

1982-2007

Letters and other materials sent between American publisher and poet James Laughlin and British painter Vanessa Jackson.

7.5 linear feet

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11672913

Houghton Library

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Jackson, Vanessa, 1953-

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Vanessa Jackson is a painter and installation wall painter, whose use of geometry and its three dimensional function deny the supposed flatness of modernist space. Her work explores the contradiction of a fully realised space at once pertaining to logic and completeness and uncertainty and unease. The ornamental and optical play of colour and form in the artist’s work both confirms and confuses the sense of perception. Jackson studied at St Martins School of Art from 1971 until 1975, followed...

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997

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James Laughlin was an American publisher and poet, and founder of the New Directions press. The son of a steel manufacturer, Laughlin attended Choate School in Connecticut and Harvard University (B.A., 1939). In the mid-1930s Laughlin lived in Italy with Ezra Pound, a major influence on his life and work; returning to the United States, he founded New Directions in 1936. Initially he intended to publish writings by ignored yet influential avant-garde writers of the period; Pound’s The Cantos ...