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Biography

Name: Frank O'Hara
Variant Name: Francis Russell O'Hara
Birth Date: June 27, 1926
Death Date: July 25, 1966
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Frank O'Hara
8,512 words, approx. 28 pages
Frank O'Hara was a dynamic leader of the "New York School" of poets, a group that included John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. The Abstract Expressionist painters in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s used the title,...
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Biography of Frank O'Hara
6,495 words, approx. 22 pages
Frank O'Hara was a leading member of the so-called New York School of poets, a group that included John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler and received its name from its association with the leading abstract-expressionist painters...
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Biography of Frank O'Hara
2,002 words, approx. 7 pages
Frank O'Hara figured in the Beat scene as one of the major poets (Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan would be others) who were close to the leading Beat poets but not actually part of their movement. The friendship and great mutual...


Quotations
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Frank O’Hara Quotes
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Francis Russell O'Hara ( June 27 , 1926 – July 25 , 1966 ) was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery , James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch , was a key member of what was known as the New York School of poetry. O'Hara's association with the Museum...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Frank O’Hara Information
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Francis Russell O'Hara (June 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of what was known as the New York School of...


News and Journals
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Artforum International
FRANK APPRAISAL.(Statistical Data Included)
10/01/1999: 1,628 words, approx. 5 pages
Issues discussed concern the life and personality of poet and Museum of Modern Art curator, Frank O'Hara. Topics addressed include O'Hara's relationship to contemporary artists of the 1960s, his association with New York's rich and bohemian class, and the notoriety of his personal life....
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The Stranger
Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara by Joe LeSueur
04/30/2003: 355 words, approx. 1 pages
In The Last Avant-Garde, David Lehman's definitive biography of Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch--the mid-century poets known as the New York School--O'Hara is portrayed as an alcoholic and a promiscuous homosexual who wrote "offhanded poems that seem as disarmingly immediate...
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The New York Observer
Art and Artists on a Pedestal\'d1 In Town and in the Country
11/20/2005: 1,298 words, approx. 4 pages
On Sunday night, at the dead center of the Guggenheim Museum’s spiral cavity, the performance artist Marina Abramović re-enacted a Joseph Beuys performance from 1965 called How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare. Honey was used to adhere gold leaf to her face; it...
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The New York Observer
Art and Artists on a Pedestal- In Town and in the Country
11/20/2005: 1,299 words, approx. 4 pages
On Sunday night, at the dead center of the Guggenheim Museum’s spiral cavity, the performance artist Marina Abramovi c re-enacted a Joseph Beuys performance from 1965 called How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare. Honey was used to adhere gold leaf to her face;...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Marjorie Perloff
18,899 words, approx. 63 pages
In the following essay, Perloff delineates the defining stylistic features of O'Hara's verse.
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Critical Essay by Gregory W. Bredbeck
9,571 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Bredbeck considers the role of homosexual semiotics in O'Hara's poetry, utilizing Roland Barthes's theoretical writings.
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Critical Essay by Laurence Goldstein
9,194 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Goldstein contends that O'Hara effectively addresses the crisis in the movie picture industry in the late 1950s in his poetry.
 


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