Search results for "Intermediality"

Art and Science in Word and Image: Exploration and Discovery

2019

International audience; Art and Science in Word and Image investigates the theme of ‘riddles of form’, exploring how discovery and innovation have functioned inter-dependently between art, literature and the sciences. Using the impact of evolutionary biologist D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form on Modernist practices as springboard into the theme, contributors consider engagements with mysteries of natural form in painting, photography, fiction, etc., as well as theories about cosmic forces, and other fields of knowledge and enquiry. Hence the collection also deals with topics including cultural inscriptions of gardens and landscapes, deconstructions of received history through word and i…

Orlando, posterity and textual survival beyond the book

2022

This paper’s premise is that certain texts call for adaptation in the sense that they encapsulate anxieties about their posterity and their survival beyond their current material actualization. Orlando’s musings on death and immortality in Virginia Woolf’s eponymous novel are a case in point as they reflect a conflicted longing for the solidity of commemorative monuments and for the immateriality of memory-scapes. Lying “entombed” and “embalmed” in the medium of the book, words also rise “like an incantation” when brought to life by the reader (Orlando, Penguin Classics, 2000, 57). This passage is to be related to the modernist revival of interest in the works of Sir Thomas Browne which not…

Introduction

2018

Utopian Formats: Simon Morley’s “Lost Horizon”

2021

International audience; In “Lost Horizon”, a 2014 ekphrasis, Simon Morley summons up not just one artpiece but several that have all in common to deal with utopia: a fifteenth century traditional Korean handscroll painting by artist Ahn Gyeon entitled A Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Paradise (1447); René Daumal’s uncompleted surrealist novel Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing (1952); James Hilton’s best-selling novel Lost Horizon (1932) and its Hollywood black and white adaptation by Frank Capra (1938), not to mention philosophical texts by Proudhon or Thomas More.Splicing together Western and Eastern traditions, high and pop…

“Promenade along the coast: Paul Nash and Dave McKean revisit Dymchurch”

2019

This paper examines the specificity of the coastline as a natural, cultural and medial boundary and interface. It focuses on how the motif of the coastline is depicted and remediated in the works of English artists Paul Nash and Dave McKean: between 1919 and 1925, as he was coming to terms with the aftermath of the First World War, Nash created a series of pictures depicting Dymchurch on the coast of Kent in England; McKean’s 2016 commemorative graphic novel Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash is a biographical exploration of Nash’s youth, of his experience of the war and of his recovery in the immediate post-war period. The interplay between memories of the trenches and the landscape of the…

Text, Image and Embroidery: Threads and Scratches

2013

Ce texte a pour point de départ l’analyse des rapports entre une nouvelle de A. S. Byatt et ses illustrations, et s’attache à définir les métaphores du fil et de la trace utilisées pour décrire textes, tissus et images gravées depuis l’introduction de l’imprimerie et des modes industriels de reproduction. Sa perspective interdisciplinaire prend en compte l’apport de penseurs du 19ème siècle tels que John Ruskin, ainsi que les recherches récentes dans les domaines des rapports entre image et texte, de la médiologie et de l’anthropologie sociale.

'Across the Lens of the Eye': Interaction between Word and Image in Mervyn Peake's Work

2010

This article examines intermediality in the work of Mervyn Peake. It draws on recent scholarship based on phenomenology and mediology, and takes as its starting point the physical process of production within the setting of 19th and 20th century graphic culture.

Ubique and Unique Book: The Presence and Potential of the Codex : Introduction to the Thematic Cluster (Part 1)

2019

The articles in this two-issue thematic cluster of Image [&] Narrative (20.1 and 20.2) explore the contemporary status of the book (in literature and, more generally, in culture). This introduction addresses the cultural context of the notion of book today and presents the various articles of the issue. nonPeerReviewed

Framing Jean-Michel Basquiat’s art: from street walls to galleries and museums

2019

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Margaret Atwood and Adaptation: The Handmaid’s Tale and Beyond

2021

Margaret Atwood has long been appreciated for her ardent defense of Canadian authors and her genre-bending fiction, essays and poetry. However, an aspect of her work that has perhaps been less thoroughly examined is her work both as adaptor and as source for adaptation in media as varied as opera, television, film, or comic books. Recent critically acclaimed television adaptations of the novels The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) and Alias Grace (Amazon) have rightfully focused attention on these works, but Atwood’s fiction has long been a source of inspiration for artists of various media, a seeming corollary to Atwood’s own tendency to explore the possibilities of media (graphic novels), genres (s…