Previous studies of William Carlos Williams have tended to look at the literary echoes in his verse. According to Bram Dijkstra, the new movements in the visual arts during the 1920s affected Williams’ work as much, if not more than, the new writing of the period. Dijkstra aims to catch the excitement of this period of art and reveal the interactions between writers and painters, and show in particular the specific and general impact this world had on Williams’ early writings.