Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures / / Leonard Barkan.

Why do painters sometimes wish they were poets--and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters? What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a tombstone? What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare suspend their plots to describe a fictitious paintin...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Essays in the Arts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 40 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One. Visible and Invisible
  • Two. Apples and Oranges
  • Three. Desire and Loss
  • Four. The Theater as a Visual Art
  • Afterword
  • On Sources and Further Readings
  • Primary Sources: Works Consulted and Works Cited
  • Further Readings in Words and Images
  • Index