{"id":4729,"date":"2009-04-13T08:47:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T12:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=4729"},"modified":"2011-12-17T19:49:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T00:49:15","slug":"another-john-ashbery-comic-book-collage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/13\/another-john-ashbery-comic-book-collage\/","title":{"rendered":"Another John Ashbery comic-book collage"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to my entry about a famous comic-book image<\/a> used by poet John Ashbery in one of his collages, rtbinc<\/a> wrote to point me toward a New York Times<\/i> article from September<\/a> about Ashbery’s artwork, which includes other examples of him making use of comic art.<\/p>\n

You can see the most obvious one below.<\/p>\n

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In this instance, the origin of the art is at least more directly acknowledged. Here’s what Holland Cotter wrote about this particular piece:<\/p>\n

The insouciant Pop-ish sensibility in some pieces owes a debt to Mr. Brainard’s brilliant collage work, as in Mr. Ashbery’s “Diffusion of Knowledge,” with its pair of all-American comic-strip superheroes mounting a spirited defense of the Smithsonian Institution castle in Washington.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s Fighting American to the left and the Guardian to the right, both created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Here’s what those characters look like in their natural habitats:<\/p>\n

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I’m afraid I can’t point out the exact panels or covers from which Ashbery took his images. Can you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to my entry about a famous comic-book image used by poet John Ashbery in one of his collages, rtbinc wrote to point me toward a New York Times article from September about Ashbery’s artwork, which includes other examples of him making use of comic art. You can see the most obvious one below. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,124],"class_list":["post-4729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-john-ashbery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}