Image and Word - Reflections of Art and Literature

What was the role of images in the western tradition? And what was their relationship with the printed work? This wide-ranging collection of essays offers a critical review of how the Western tradition set out to compare visual arts and texts, encompassing thirteenth-century Spanish miniatures, Italian Renaissance painting and book illustrations, the explosion of inter-arts comparisons in the works of such diverse writers as Blake, Mallerme and D'Annunzio, and the modern debate on the visual arts. 256p, 21 illus. (Legenda Main Series, Legenda 2003)

List of contents

1. A Renaissance Enigma: Piero di Cosimo's Forest Fire (Catherine Whistler); 2. Delacroix and Literature (J. J. L. Whiteley); 3. On Chess, Chests and Kingship: Two Miniatures of Alfonso X of Castile inthe Libros de acedrex, dados e tablas (1283) (Kirstin Kennedy); 4. Early Illustrations of Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata (Julian Brooks); 5. The Literalism of William Blake's Illustrations to the Divine Comedy (Antonella Braida); 6. D'Annunzio, his Illustrators and Italian Pre-Raphaelitism (Giuliana Pieri); 7. 'The art consists of hiding the art': Castiglione and Raphael (Ben Thomas); 8. 'The vantage-ground of abstraction': Charles Lamb on Reading and Viewing (Luisa Cale); 9. Graphic Revolutions: The Role of the Pictorial in Jules Valles's JacquesVingtras Trilogy (Rachael Langford); 10. Visual and Textual Synergy in Stephane Mallarme (Damian Catani); 11. Art/History between the Linguistic and Pictorial 'Turns' (Martin Gaughan).

Summary

What was the role of images in the western tradition? And what was their relationship with the printed work? This collection of essays offers a critical review of how the Western tradition set out to compare visual arts and texts.

Product details

• Authors: Antonella Braida, Braida Antonella
• Assisted by: Antonella Braida (Editor), Giuliana Pieri (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781900755696
• ISBN: 978-1-900755-69-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Weight: 385 g
• Series: Legenda
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Kunstgeschichte, Literaturtheorie, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, ART / History / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Literary studies: general, Literary theory