Walt Whitman / Paul Cava: Children of Adam from Leaves of Grass (English and German Edition) - Softcover

Walt Whitman; Paul Cava

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3936165440 ISBN 13: 9783936165449

Publisher: edition Galerie Vevais, 2005

Synopsis

Limited soft cover edition of 700 copies: 176 pages. Edition Galerie Vevais is pleased to present an illustrated edition of the Children of Adam cycle of poems from the American literary masterpiece , Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. 'Children of Adam' is the legendary group of poems that caused the book to be banned in Boston at its publication in 1882. Whitman s theme was the male and female body, entirely naked in every sense and he steadfastly resisted any suggestion of censorship. This boldly illustrated new edition of the poems brings together two pioneers of American culture, both coincidentally natives of Brooklyn, New York: Walt Whitman, the beloved American poet who continues to inspire readers worldwide, and the contemporary artist Paul Cava, born more than a century later in 1949. John Wood, Arden Kass and Alexander Scholz contribute original and informative essays; technical and scholarly guidance are supplied by noted Whitman scholars Prof. Ed Folsom and Prof. Walter Grünzweig. The Children of Adam cycle from "Leaves of Grass" is a hymn of hope for a young and innocent America. It is an anthem for a democratic America and a free world -- as well as an unabashed polemic for a shame-free physical and procreative life. This book presents the controversial cluster of poems in a totally original and honest way each of the 16 poems stands alone on its beautifully designed page, leaving space for a complex relationship to develop between the sexual and spiritual nuances of the artwork and poetry.

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Review:

Paul Cava's photography draws explicit linkages between the liberated sensuality of Whitman's poetry, the tactile qualities of the palimpsests of the organic and inorganic worlds, and the means by which conscious and unconscious desire structures language and perception. His work is an ecstatic embrace of both the Lacanian Real and its penetration into the Symbolic realms of language and phenomenal experience, the individual body as a yearning but integrated being capable of fluid identity and profound sensual union with the existences it perceives around it. Endlessly fascinating, touching on the border of the pornographic and erotic, eliciting the most liberating and terrifying essences of both kinds of sexual expression, recognizing also the role of time in deterioration and bodily dissipation. Perhaps the most affecting expression of eroticism's tragedy in contemporary photography. --George Hunka --George Hunka

About this edition

• Publisher: edition Galerie Vevais
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 3936165440
• ISBN 13: 9783936165449
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176