Verbal / Visual Crossings 1880-1980 [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION Ever since the pioneering work of Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich, and particularly since the publication of Mario Praz's Mnemosyne and Jean Hagstrum's The Sister Arts, scholarly interest in the interrelation between the verbal and the visual arts has steadily increased. In recent years, this resulted in the publication of such diverse books as Wendy Steiner's The Colors of Rhetoric (1982), Albert Cook's Figural Choice in Poetry and Art (1985), W.J.T. Mitchell's Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (1986), and Willard Bohn's The Aesthetics of Visual Poetry 1914-1928 (1986), in the founding of specialized journals such as Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry (1984 -), in special issues of such journals as Poetics Today 10/2 (Summer 1989), and in conferences such as the First International Conference on Word and Image held in Amsterdam in April 1987, as well as in the founding (at the Amsterdam Conference) of an International Association for the study of Word and Image. The present collection of essays inscribes itself in the broad context just sketched. Yet, as its very title suggests, its scope is limited both chronologically and thematically. Specifically, it concentrates on the relation between a visual image or (representation and its verbal accompaniment, whether this be a name, a