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Elective affinities : testing word and image relationships / edited by Catriona MacLeod, Veronique Plesch and Charlotte Schoell-Glass.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Conference on Word and Image Studies (7th : 2005 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Series:
- Word & image (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Word & image interactions ; 6.
- Word & image interactions, 1388-3569 ; 6
- Word & image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and literature--Congresses.
- Art and literature.
- Visual communication--Congresses.
- Visual communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (422 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume presents the impressive range of scholarly affinities, approaches, and subjects that characterize today’s word and image studies. The essays, a selection of papers first presented in 2005 at the seventh international conference of the International Association of Word and Image Studies/Association Internationale pour l’Étude des Rapports entre Texte et Image that took place in Philadelphia, are case studies of the diverse configurations of the textual and the iconic. “Elective affinities” — a notion originally borrowed by Goethe for his 1809 novel of the same title from eighteenth-century chemistry — here refers to the active role of the two partners in the relationship of the pictorial and the verbal. Following the experimental modalities opened up by Goethe, the present volume is divided into three sections, which explore, respectively, how words and images can merge in harmony, engage in conflicts and contestations, and, finally, interact in an experimental way that self-consciously tests the boundaries and relations among verbal and visual arts. New perspectives on word and image relationships emerge, in periods, national traditions, works, and materials as different as (among many others) an installation by Marcel Duchamp and the manual accompanying it; the impact of artificial light sources on literature and art; nineteenth-century British illustrations of Native Americans; the contemporary comic book; a seventeenth-century Italian devotional manuscript uniting text, image, and music; Chinese body and performance art..
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Catriona MacLeod
- Summaries
- Consulting the Manual: Word and Image in Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés / Michael R. Taylor
- Living and Dying in the Limelight: Performing the Self in Frida Kahlo’s Diary and Paintings / Adriana Dragomir
- Imbrication de l’image, du texte et de la musique dans un corpus de prières énigmatiques à la Vierge / Laurence Wuidar
- The Künstlerroman as Romantic Arabesque: Parody, Collaboration, and the Making of The Modern Vasari (1854) / Cordula Grewe
- The “Inscapes” of Louis le Brocquy / Karen E. Brown
- American Scenery/Canadian Scenery: Conflicting Views of Indigenes in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Portrayals of the American Continent / Robert Grant
- Cartoonists as Matchmakers: The Vibrant Relationship of Text and Image in the Work of Lynda Barry / Miriam Harris
- The Truth of the Word, the Falsity of the Image: Transmetropolitan’s Critique of the Society of the Spectacle / Steen Christiansen
- Le magazine français Vu (1928–40): Naissance de l’information visuelle et utopie de la substitution de l’image photographique au texte écrit / Danielle Leenaerts
- From Ekphrasis to History: Verbal Transformations of the Display of Picture Galleries—Wilhelm Heinse and Friedrich Schlegel / Hubert Locher
- Modernizing History and Historicizing Modernity: Baudelaire and Baudelairean Representations of Contemporaneity / Lauren S. Weingarden
- Serial Künstler: Portrait of the Artist as a Malefactor / Valentin Nussbaum
- Hypnotic Performance and the Falsity of Appearances: The Aesthetics of Medical Spectatorship and Axel Munthe’s Critique of Jean-Martin Charcot / Jonathan Marshall
- New Light and Old Shadows: Industrial Illumination and its Imaginaire / Susana Oliveira
- Illustrating the Shadow of Doubt: Henry James, Blindness, and “The Real Thing” / Jennifer A. Greenhill
- Picturing Paradise: Baudelaire’s “L’Invitation au voyage” / Eric T. Haskell
- The Writing-Drawing Continuum of Alexei Remizov / Julia Friedman
- Aby Warburg as Reader of Gottfried Semper: Reflections on the Cosmic Character of Ornament / Spyros Papapetros
- John Heartfield’s Insects and the “Idea” of Natural History / Cristina Cuevas-Wolf
- The Photographic Thought of Latina/o Literature and Cultural Critique / María DeGuzmán
- Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein, Fassbinder: Découpage Aesthetics on the Divide / Susan Nurmi-Schomers
- (Ideo-)Logical Alliances between Image and Script: Calligraphic Reconfigurations in Contemporary Chinese Art / Birgit Mersmann
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- "International Association of Word and Image Studies".
- "The essays contained in this volume are based on papers presented at the Seventh Triennial Conference on Word and Image Studies, 'Elective Affinities', which was held from 23-27 September 2005 in Philadelphia, U.S.A..".
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-50535-1
- 9786612505355
- 90-420-2619-7
- 1-4416-2551-8
- OCLC:
- 455351929
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789042026193 DOI
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