Search results for "ekphrasis"

Actaeon Revisited: Seamus Heaney and Sinéad Morrissey Respond to Titian

2014

International audience

Shining castles and humans of metal/floral appearance ? metaphorical language in the Palaiologan romances Kallimachos and Velthandros

2019

About eight centuries after Heliodorus, the Greek novel resurfaced in the twelfth century, in Komnenian Byzantium, and again two centuries later under the Palaiologan dynasty. This latter literary revival was due to the political stability of the imperial Byzantine government, which promoted cultural production, rhetorical education, and patronage networks. Kallimachos and Velthandros, two Palaiologan romances presented as court literature, combine ancient and medieval tropes with rhetorical artistry to blur the boundaries between the artificial and the natural. Castles and objects made of precious metals thus resemble living, natural spaces, and human characters are portrayed in metallurgi…

Silvia Stucky: l'intima comprensione del mondo

2013

Catalogo relativo all'opera realizzata dall'artista romana nel giardino della Scala Santa dei Padri Passionisti a Roma. Il volume accoglie scritti di storici dell'arte occidentale e orientale e di esperti di varie altre discipline. L'opera è un'installazione permanente che propone n dialogo tra elementi tipici della liturgia cattolica, quali il fonte battesimale, e lo tsukubai giapponese

Intorno a Cees Nooteboom e José Saramago. Quando la scrittura di finzione presta le parole al dibattito artistico contemporaneo

2013

Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Jolanda Nigro Covre, professore di storia dell'arte contemporanea presso l'Università La Sapienza di Roma. In particolare, il testo di Gabriella De Marco, vuole essere un contributo teso tra storia dell'arte, storia della critica d'arte e letteratura contemporanea: affronta infatti partendo da alcuni romanzi dello scrittore olandese Nooteboom e del premio Nobel Saramago alcuni aspetti che riguardano la ricerca figurativa attuale.

Lebende Bilder. ETA Hoffmann und die Ikonographie der Heiligen Rosalie

2018

Die Mischung von Begierde und Kunst ist für Hoffmanns Bildbeschreibung charakteristisch: Statuen, die lebendig werden, Mädchen, die versteinern, Gemälde, die ihre Betrachter unwiderstehlich anziehen, Gestalten, die ein Leben auf der Schwelle zwischen Wirklichkeit und Darstellung führen, all dies sind Motive, welche die Hoffmannsche Erzählkunst in großem Ausmaß darbietet. Doch es handelt sich hier nicht nur um die Überlagerung von Liebesobjekt und Gemälde, von Begierde und Kunst, sondern vor allem und ausdrücklich um eine lästerliche Überlagerung von religiöser Ikonen (Heilige, Engel, Madonnen) und Sexualobjekten.

Michele Cometa

2021

This essay is about Michele Cometa, essayist, literary and aesthetic critic and one of the founders of Italian Visual Culture ,both as a cultural approach and as an academic discipline (or, rather, un-discipline). He is responsible for the reception of W.J.T. Mitchell in Italy, having edited the first translations of his works (see, Pictorial Turn. Essays on Visual Culture, 2008, new edition 2017). He also organized the first meeting entirely devoted to the discipline in 2007, hosting the encounter between Mitchell’s Pictorial turn and Belting’s Iconic Turn and the different approaches they gave origin to in Italy.

Preface

2017

The volume is devoted to images in painting, photography and cinema invented by literature. At the same time it intends to question, through this perspective, the relationship between text and image, between verbal and visual in modern and contemporary literature. The authors investigate the mutual boundaries between literature and arts from the point of view of aesthetics, visual culture and literary theory, trying to build a map of the notional ékphrasis, a description which constitutes the work of art while telling it.

"Shakespeare e le Arti Sorelle. Rappresentazione pittorica e tensione ekfrastica in Othello e Cymbeline"

2014

Representació gràfica i ècfrasi en l’obra de Ramon Llull

2016

El present treball estudia la relació que s’estableix entre text i representacions gràfiques en les obres de Ramon Llull, fent una atenció especial al recurs retòric anomenat ècfrasi, això és, la descripció verbal d’un objecte visual. S’analitzen casos de descripció de figures lul·lianes, sobretot esquemes arboris, en presència de la seva representació (ècfrasi referencial) o en absència de la mateixa (ècfrasi nocional). Es conclou que la dimensió material de les figures i l’assimilació mental del seu funcionament són elements cabdals del procés d’elevació cognitiva que proposa Llull This article discusses the relation established between texts and graphic representations in works of Ramon …

Of whales and men: Caitríona O’Reilly’s septentrional voyage in “The Sea Cabinet” (2006)

2021

International audience; The title-poem of Caitríona O’Reilly’s second collection – The Sea Cabinet – is a sequence of five ekphrastic pieces paying tribute to the city of Hull’s past as a major whaling port. As she perambulates through the galleries of the Maritime Museum, the Irish poetess is inspired by all the paraphernalia on display: skeletons of various species of whales, whaler’s tools but also journals, logbooks, paintings, illustrations and hundreds of examples of the folk art and mythemes of the whaler. From one poem to the next, O’Reilly depicts the northernness of the Arctic Ocean as eery but bewitching otherness, focusing on illustrations of Captain Graville’s whaling ship ice-…