...). 2000a Musical Ekphrasis: Composers Responding to Poetry and Painting (Hillsdale, NY:Pendragon). 2000b Musical Ekphrasis in Rilke's Marien-Leben (Amsterdam: Rodopi). Buch, Hans Christoph 1972 Ut pictura poesis: Die Beschreibungsliteratur und ihre Kritiker von Lessing bis Lukács (Munich...

... existing scholarship, I examine a study exemplary in its analysis of embodied experience, Michael Fried's Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin (2002), proposing that the author's reported empathic experiences of Adolph Menzel's painting Rear Courtyard and House can...

... sources, while the recent genre of museum books re-presents an artwork twice: a visual reproduction is published side by side with its verbal re-presentation. The two forms subtly meet in a poem by Paul Durcan, where a fifteenth-century painting by Giovanni di Paolo is reproduced together with a poetic...

... to the aesthetics of virtuality enacted by Lily Briscoe's painting. Only by reformulating the problem of time in spatial terms can Lily overthrow the limitations of the formalist framework: her art—a hybrid image/text—hinges on the blanks of aesthetic communication (which I define by reference to the work...

...Nadine Kuperty-Tsur This essay considers the aesthetic changes in French poetry and painting as a result of the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre in August 1572. By the end of the same year, the formal purity and striving for detailed perfection that defined mannerism were no longer relevant goals...

... Hopper’s Nighthawks, 1942 , one of the most iconic paintings in American art. My consideration draws on Harriet Tarlo’s recognition (2009) of the contemporary value of found poetry, here applied to advance the concerns of ekphrasis in the process of retooling its response to a changing public sphere...

...Ellen Spolsky With Renaissance paintings of the Annunciation to Mary and the 1984 and 1991 Terminator movies as examples, this essay notes a common interest in the availability of help from a superhuman source. It argues that the yearning for access to a powerful hybridity, a cooperative mixing...

... of this essay is primarily on music, related tendencies in the other arts (literature and painting) that contributed to a new awareness of the role of sympathy in the universes of the modern individual and society also are examined. © 2001 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2001 Ackerman...

... represented. Studying the phenomenon of the delinearization of human perception from the semiotic viewpoint, the article discusses visual counterparts of literary estrangement, such as anamorphic structures in painting and the art of pantomime in the theater. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006...

... into the literary aspect of these phenomena, very little has been written on their pictorial incarnation. Focusing on Malevich's late paintings of Russian peasants and his 1933 Self-Portrait, I try to trace the complex art historical moment of the late 1920s and early 1930s and map out the representational...

...Liliane Louvel Although numerous studies have been devoted to the relations between painting and literature, surprisingly few have focused on the photography/text relationship. Photography-in-text is a hybrid product that gives rise to a hybrid textual genre and so renews the iconotext...

... or painting does not fully represent can carry a metamessage of unspoken intimacy. Copyright © 2020 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2020 aesthetics impressionism social reading phenomenology References Alter Adam L. Oppenheimer Daniel M. . 2009 . “ Uniting...

... such fundamental concepts as complication, resolution, and illustration. Since Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1766) distinguished the temporal arts like poetry, where signs are consecutive, from the spatial arts like painting, where signs are juxtaposed, the latter have been considered to be limited when it comes...

.... Poetics Today 30:3 (Fall 2009)  DOI 10.1215/03335372-2009-004 © 2009 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 518 Poetics Today 30:3 1. The Voices of Image and Form Some artists “talk” to their paint. Abstract artist Masako Kamiya says: “I engage in a dialogue with paint. My statement...

...Sabine Gross © 2008 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2008 Garrett Stewart, The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 411 pp. (170 illustrations). Anker, Valentina 1996 Le livre et le journal chez les peintres (Geneva...

... : 343 -48. Kafalenos, Emma 1996 “Implications of Narrative in Painting and Photography,” New Novel Review 3 (2): 53 -64. 2001 “Reading Visual Art, Making—and Forgetting—Fabulas,” Narrative 9 (2): 138 -45. Kozloff, Sarah 1992 “Narrative Theory and Television,” in Allen 1992 : 67...

... Renate , 2015 , “ Images in Narrative Literature: Cognitive Experience and Iconic Moments .” In Handbook of Intermediality: Literature, Image, Sound, Music , edited by Rippl Gabriele , 343 – 60 ( Berlin : De Gruyter ). Bryson Norman , 1983 Vision and Painting: The Logic...

.... The interpreter is never an exact translator; he selects and judges. And this, precisely, happens whenever a poet speaks of a painting or a painter illus- trates a poem. (1989: 44, original emphasis)2 Thus, as Kibédi Varga points out, ekphrasis is an interpretation and, as such, can be compared...

... chapter, “Thinking Paintings,” focuses on the work of German artist Gerhard Richter, and specifically his Birkenau Cycle from 2014. Eshel examines Richter's process of creating the paintings, and particularly Richter's reservations about representing the horrors of the Holocaust which he expressed in his...

... 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 282 Poetics Today 34:3 1. Paintings, Versions, and Narrative: An Introduction In the study of painting, there is a tradition of looking at a work’s genesis to generate new interpretations. Since the 1920s X-radiography has enabled researchers...