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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSylvia Plath's Drawings Are Even More Devastatingly Beautiful Than You'd Expect
http://bust.com/sylvia-plaths-drawings-are-even-more-devastatingly-beautiful-than-youd-expect.htmlSylvia Plath is known mostly for her poetry and prose, but arguably the same degree of violent, exuberant feeling may be found in her sketch work, now published in a volume entitled Sylvia Plath: Drawings. Edited by the poets own daughter Frieda Hughes, the text cradles her pen-and-ink drawings with diary entries and letters.
Plath created the illustrations at Cambridge, and used studied art as a way of coping with and cataloguing her experience. In a letter, she writes her mother Ive discovered my deepest source of inspiration, which is art (...I ) am overflowing with ideas and inspirations, as Ive been bottling up a geyser for a year.
In the images, we see what critic Charles Newman sees in her poetry. He writes, the "tension between the perceiver and the thing-in-itself by literally becoming the thing-in-itself; indeed, in her art is is enmeshed and closely bound with her subject. Of her cow drawings she writes to her husband Ted Hughes, I got a kind of peace from the cows; what a curious broody looks they gave me; what marvelous colossal shits and pissings. Hughes himself once described her emotionality and closeness with nature: Her reactions to the smallest desecrations, even in plants, were extremely violent.
Take a look at her drawings. You might just find yourself coasting alone the contours of the thistles as she once did: I can close myself completely in the line, lose myself in it. . . .
Plath created the illustrations at Cambridge, and used studied art as a way of coping with and cataloguing her experience. In a letter, she writes her mother Ive discovered my deepest source of inspiration, which is art (...I ) am overflowing with ideas and inspirations, as Ive been bottling up a geyser for a year.
In the images, we see what critic Charles Newman sees in her poetry. He writes, the "tension between the perceiver and the thing-in-itself by literally becoming the thing-in-itself; indeed, in her art is is enmeshed and closely bound with her subject. Of her cow drawings she writes to her husband Ted Hughes, I got a kind of peace from the cows; what a curious broody looks they gave me; what marvelous colossal shits and pissings. Hughes himself once described her emotionality and closeness with nature: Her reactions to the smallest desecrations, even in plants, were extremely violent.
Take a look at her drawings. You might just find yourself coasting alone the contours of the thistles as she once did: I can close myself completely in the line, lose myself in it. . . .
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Sylvia Plath's Drawings Are Even More Devastatingly Beautiful Than You'd Expect (Original Post)
KamaAina
Jul 2015
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seveneyes
(4,631 posts)1. I love it. It hurts and heals
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)2. Nice
Don't think I've ever seen her drawings before.
enigmatic
(15,021 posts)3. "Sylvia Plath"- Peter Laughner
Peter's a hero of mine and this is one of his greatest songs:
jamesartist
(10 posts)4. Atlantic Article from June 2013
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/why-sylvia-plath-haunts-american-culture/309310/
Why Sylvia Plath Still Haunts American Culture; Even half a century after her suicide, both her work and her life remain thrilling and horrifying.
Fifty years after she killed herself, we find her vital, nasty, invincible, red-and-white poetry sitting in a region of cultural near-exhaustion. Her short life has been trampled and retrampled under the biographers hoof, her opus viewed and skewed through every conceivable lens of interpretation.
Fifty years after she killed herself, we find her vital, nasty, invincible, red-and-white poetry sitting in a region of cultural near-exhaustion. Her short life has been trampled and retrampled under the biographers hoof, her opus viewed and skewed through every conceivable lens of interpretation.