Elective affinities : : testing word and image relationships / / edited by Catriona MacLeod, Veronique Plesch and Charlotte Schoell-Glass.

• Superior document: Word & image interactions, 6
• Author: International Conference on Word and Image Studies Philadelphia, Pa.)
• TeilnehmendeR: MacLeod, Catriona, 1963-; Plesch, Veronique, 1957-; Schoell-Glass, Charlotte, 1951-; International Association of Word and Image Studies.; International Conference on Word and Image Studies (7th : 2005 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Word & image (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Word & image interactions ; 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (422 p.)
• 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..".

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/A...

Table of 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.