Tara McDowell
Biographic Data
| ID | 8752099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tara McDowell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tara |
| FAMILY NAME | McDowell |
| SIGNATURE | MCDOWELL T |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1326-9124 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Work of Salvage
This chapter considers the work of the artist Jess (1923–2004), whose career unfolded almost entirely in San Francisco and whose interlocutors included Bay Area artists and poets. The chapter opens with a close reading of a 1974 work by Jess titled The 5th Never of Old Lear, an allegory of catastrophe and madness made in the postwar era of the atomic age. Trained as a radiochemist, Jess was drafted into the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1943 and …
The Householders
How the poet Robert Duncan and the artist Jess made the household part of their separate and collaborative creative practice. “I'm a householder,” the poet Robert Duncan once explained. “My whole idea of being able to work was to have a household.” In this book, Tara McDowell examines the household (physical and conceptual) that Duncan established with the artist Jess, beginning in 1951 when the two men exchanged marriage vows, and ending with Du…
Householders
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The Householders
How the poet Robert Duncan and the artist Jess made the household part of their separate and collaborative creative practice. “I'm a householder,” the poet Robert Duncan once explained. “My whole idea of being able to work was to have a household.” In this book, Tara McDowell examines the household (physical and conceptual) that Duncan established with the artist Jess, beginning in 1951 when the two men exchanged marriage vows, and ending with Du…
Householders
The Work of Salvage
This chapter considers the work of the artist Jess (1923–2004), whose career unfolded almost entirely in San Francisco and whose interlocutors included Bay Area artists and poets. The chapter opens with a close reading of a 1974 work by Jess titled The 5th Never of Old Lear, an allegory of catastrophe and madness made in the postwar era of the atomic age. Trained as a radiochemist, Jess was drafted into the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1943 and …
1918-1988 (1 work) · American Poets (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 work) · Artists (1 work) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (1 work) · biography (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Duncan, robert edward (1 work) · Engineering (1 work)