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What happens when the assumptions and practices of museum curators and art educators intersect with the assumptions and practices of publishing for children?This study explores how over three hundred children's picture books, most of them published in the last three decades in English, introduce children to art and art museums. It considers how the books emerge from and relate to a range of theories and assumptions about childhood and childhood development, children's literature and culture, illustration, visual art, museology, and art education. As well as examining how these theories and assumptions influence what picture books teach young readers about visiting museums and about how to look at and think about art, it examines which artists and artworks appear most often in picture books and offers a survey of different kinds of art-related picture books: ones that claim to be purely informational, ones that make looking at art a game or a puzzle, ones in which children visit art museums, and many more. Since the books all include reproductions of or allusions to museum artworks, the study also considers the problems illustrators face in depicting museum artworks in illustrations in a different style.

On parle volontiers d'un « bon » roman et l'on sait alors immédiatement à quoi l'on a affaire : une histoire bien menée, bien tournée, remplie d'événements dont les développements retiennent notre attention. À l'inverse, l'idée qu'un roman soit « beau » ne va pas de soi. Aussitôt qu'on l'énonce surviennent quantité de difficultés, à commencer par ce qu'elle désigne exactement. Et même en supposant qu'on puisse la définir, qu'apporte-t-elle à un roman? Quelle compréhension – ou compréhension accrue – nous en donne-t-elle? Il n'existe pas d'étude sur la beauté romanesque, sur sa valeur, sur sa distinction, sur ce qui la crée. Et pourtant les questions que soulève cette idée sont parmi les plus intrigantes que pose le roman, puisque de toutes les raisons qui nous poussent à en lire et à en écrire, la beauté est peut-être l'une des plus puissantes en même temps que l'une des plus insaisissables. Dans cet essai qui n'a aucunement la prétention d'établir ce qu'est la beauté d'un roman et encore moins d'en fixer les critères, Isabelle Daunais se propose plutôt de suivre les chemins qu'elle peut emprunter, les façons qu'elle a eues d'exister ou qu'on a eues de la penser. Guidée par la conviction que c'est dans la durée souterraine du roman, de ses personnages et de leur vie que se déploie la beauté romanesque, elle plonge dans de nombreuses œuvres de la littérature occidentale – de Cervantès à Roberto Bolaño, de Balzac à Marie-Claire Blais, de Dostoïevski à Philip Roth – pour faire émerger les principales incarnations de cette idée. Il en ressort une lecture nouvelle de la spécificité du roman en tant que genre littéraire et en tant qu'art à part entière.

The first book to comprehensively address Yeats's engagements across the arts as both writer and cultural workerIncludes detailed case studies which capture the complex history of Yeats as an inter-arts thinker and collaboratorPresents a wide variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, including from scholars of literature, aesthetics, drama, music, dance and the visual arts, as well as perspectives drawn from Victorian, Fin de siècle and Modernist studiesOffers the latest critical thinking on the intersections between Yeats's interest in the arts, his role as an active public figure and the socio-political and ideological nature of his writings Features new work exploring many arts in combination, as well as focused, fully illustrated analyses of individual arts to appeal to a wide variety of readers and practitionersW. B. Yeats was not only a poet but also a cultural revolutionary. A restless collaborator, he fostered countless artistic enterprises, from the Abbey Theatre to the Cuala Press, and pursued various inter-artistic media and forums for his work. From childhood co-creations with his siblings to the arresting combination of sound and movement in his final play, The Death of Cuchulain, his work also repeatedly addresses and incorporates music, dance, and the visual, material and theatrical arts with remarkable intensity. For him, literature was a vital thing that engaged, in one form or another, all the senses. This volume's newly commissioned chapters analyse afresh such engagements. Bringing together scholars of literature, aesthetics, cultural history and specialists in drama, music, dance and the visual arts, they provide a broad range of historical, conceptual, and disciplinary approaches and perspectives.

«This volume locates itself neatly in the growing collection of publications on intermediality by relating such practices to Roland Barthes. Barthesian motifs and writerly concerns are found within a variety of intermedial practices, as the analysis moves, historically and globally, across visual, aural and literary cultures. Such an approach is both appropriate and innovative within Barthes Studies and in cultural theory more generally.» (Andy Stafford, Professor of French and Critical Theory, University of Leeds) The essays in this collection reconsider Roland Barthes as a crucial figure in intermedia studies, arguing that the concepts and forms of analysis he pioneered are of continuing importance for students and scholars working in the field. These essays utilize an interdisciplinary methodology, drawing on Barthes's own intermedial critical practice, to examine the multiple relationships between art, literature, music and performance and across different languages. The collection places Barthes's writing in critical dialogue with other theorists, including Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Dick Higgins and Emmanuel Levinas, investigating the work of figures as varied as André Breton, Giordano Bruno, Alain Cavalier, Alfred Hitchcock, Marcel Schwob, W. G. Sebald, Steven Spielberg, Yoko Tawada and Lev Tolstoy. The collection demonstrates that Barthes's intermedial critical and theoretical practice provides a means of challenging fixed critical narratives and exploring crucial intermedial issues, including how narrative crosses media, the close relationship between image and text throughout history, and how twentieth-century consumer capitalist culture transformed the relationship between image and text.

This monograph offers the first-ever, full-length analysis of the most irreverent book of Italian Futurism: L'anguria lirica, printed in 1934 on tin metal sheets, with design and poetic text by Tullio d'Albisola and illustrations by Bruno Munari. This study, which features the unabridged reproduction of the pages of the tin book, accompanied by the first English translation of the poem, aims to disentangle the complex relationship between text and image in this total artwork. It shows how the endless series of material transformations at its core – of woman into food, of love into desecrating religion, of man into machine, of poetry into matter – fostered a radical change in poetry-writing, thus breaking away from a stagnant lyrical past.

This study investigates the capacity of Shakespeare's texts – obviously destined for stage performances – to generate images and mental colours in the readers'and in the spectators'minds. Such notions as Ut pictura poesis and the paragoneare discussed in the first part of this book, along with the function and nature of colours. After considering the sets of correspondences and the major differences between texts and images, the author presents and analyzes some of his own illustrations of Shakespearean characters. Jean-Louis Claret, both a university professor specialized in Shakespeare's theatre and an illustrator, proposes to shed light on the process that led him from the perusal of the written text to the visualization of visages. The voice of poets is unconventionally called upon to shed light on the complex mechanisms he describes.

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and visual art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary experimental forms. The collection's engagement with diverse literary and cultural artifacts offers a comprehensive survey of the vibrant interrelationships that currently inform literary studies and the arts.Featuring four sections, the first part provides an overview of theoretical approaches to art and literature from philosophy and aesthetics through to cognitive neuroscience. Part two examines one of the most important intersections between text and image: the workings of ekphrasis across poetry, fiction, drama, comics, life and travel writing, and architectural treatises. Parts three and four consider intermedial crossings from antiquity to the present. The contributors examine the rich intermedial experiments that range from manuscript studies to infographics in graphic narratives, illuminating the vibrant ways in which texts have intersected with illustration, music, dance, architecture, painting, photography, media installations, and television.Throughout this dynamic collection of 37 chapters, the contributors evolve existing critical debates in innovative new directions. The volume will be a critical resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as specialist scholars working in literary studies, philosophy of art, text and image studies, and visual culture.The Introduction and Chapters 10, 14 and 37 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between Cut and Glue fills a gap in the current scholarship on literary collage, by addressing how different the interpretations of the concept are, depending on the author who uses the concept and the material and writers surveyed. The book studies writers who employed literary collage during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, some whose works have been intensely analyzed from this perspective (William S. Burroughs and Walter Benjamin), but also some whose collage-writing style has recently been investigated by writers, being usually placed under the umbrella term of artist books (Stelio Maria Martini).

This is an open access book. The 5th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2023) was held on October 20-22, 2023 in Chengdu, China. Literature is an art that reflects the social life and expresses the author's thoughts and feelings by shaping images with language as the means. Art is a social ideology that uses images to reflect reality but is more typical than reality. It includes literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, music and so on. Literature is one of the forms of expression belonging to art. Literature and art are difficult to separate by a clear boundary, but also for people to create more infinite imagination space. ICLAHD 2023 is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Literature, Art and Human Development research to a common forum. The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in Literature, Art and Human Development research and another goal is topromote scientific information interchange between researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working all around the world. The conference will be held every year to make it an ideal platform for people to share views and experiences in Literature, Art and Human Development research and related areas.

The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close friendship and intellectual discourse, centred on sustained discussion of the practice, teaching and morality of art. This book presents a reappraisal of Murdoch's novels – chiefly, three mature novels, The Sea, The Sea (1978), Nuns and Soldiers (1980) and The Good Apprentice (1985), and two enigmatic late novels, The Green Knight (1993) and Jackson's Dilemma (1995) – which are perceived through the prism of her discourse with Weinberger. It draws on a run of almost 400 letters from Murdoch to Weinberger, and on Murdoch's philosophical writings, Weinberger's private writings, the remarks of both artists in interviews, and other material relating to their views on art and art history, much of which is unpublished and has received no previous critical attention. Scrutiny of their shared values, methods and the imagistic dialogue that takesplace in their art provides original perspectives on Murdoch's creativity, and new ways of understanding her experimentation with the visual arts. This book offers a new line of enquiry into Murdoch's novels, and into the relationship between literature and the visual arts.

The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture, honoring the memory of James Anderson Winn, whose work demonstrated how seeing that interplay of the arts and literature was essential to a full understanding of Restoration and eighteenth-century English culture. Scenery, machinery, music, dance, and texts transformed one another, both enriching and complicating generic distinctions. Artists were alive to the power of the arts to reflect and shape reality, and their audience was quick to turn to the arts as performative pleasures and critical lenses through which to understand a changing world. This collection's eminent authors discuss estate design, musicalized theater, the visual spectacle of musical performance, stage machinery and set designs, the social uses of painting and singing, drama's reflection of a transformed military infrastructure, and the arts of memory and of laughter.

Wolfgang Born (1893-1949), Halbbruder des Physikers und Nobelpreisträgers Max Born, war als Künstler, Kunsthistoriker und Kunstkritiker in München und Wien tätig, bevor er nach Amerika emigrierte. Der Briefwechsel mit Thomas Mann dreht sich um eine bislang unbekannte frühe Serie von Aquarellen (1916) als Vorläufer der Lithographienmappe Der Tod in Venedig (1921), zu der Thomas Mann einen Brief beisteuerte, und setzt sich im jeweiligen Exil zwischen Wien, Zürich und Amerika fort. Höhepunkt ist Borns Zuruf 1936, Deutschland sei dort, wo Thomas Mann sei. Thomas Manns berühmte Sentenz »Where I am, there is Germany« (Wo ich bin, ist Deutschland), die seine Ankunft in Amerika 1938 akzentuiert, ist somit ein aus deutsch-jüdischer Kulturtradition kommender Aufruf zum Widerstand gegen das NS-Regime in Deutschland. Nach einem parallelen Studium der Kunst (an der Münchner Akademie) und Kunstgeschichte (bei Heinrich Wölfflin) porträtierte Born in den Zwanziger Jahren zahlreiche Größen seiner Zeit, neben Heinrich und Thomas Mann u.a. Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Kerr und Richard Strauß. In Wien promovierte Born bei Josef Stryzgowski und versuchte 1933, Oskar Kokoschka als Illustrator für Thomas Manns Joseph-Roman Die Geschichten Jaakobs zu gewinnen. Zahllose Artikel in Kunstzeitschriften und Wiener Tageszeitungen sicherten ihm den Lebensunterhalt; sie werden erstmals ebenso bibliographisch erfasst wie die vielen in Amerika entstandenen Artikel zur Kunst und Volkskunde. Seiner dortigen prekären Lebenssituation trotzte Born zwei Standardwerke ab, Still-life in America. (1947) und American landscape painting (1948). Oskar Kokoschkas Auftrag vom Februar 1949, Born solle das maßgebliche Buch über seine Graphik schreiben, vereitelte Borns plötzlicher Tod im Juni 1949.

From the birth of the museum to the explosion of mass-produced illustrated books, the Romantic period (c. 1770-1840) was a moment of rapid change and fruitful experimentation in the fields of art and literature alike. New advances in print production encouraged a wider range of readers to engage with literary forms that opened a path into the once aristocratic field of the visual arts. This Companion captures the way recent engagements with visual studies have reshaped how we approach and understand the boundaries between print and visual culture in the period. It brings together 27 research-led chapters that offer a detailed account of the productive, if sometimes tense, interactions between emergent forms of intermedial expression that were redefining culture in the Romantic period -- as they continue to do today.

Caroline Bergvall's celebrated trilogy of interdisciplinary medievalist texts and projects—Meddle English (2011), Drift (2014), and Alisoun Sings (2019)—documents methods of reading and making that are poetically and politically alert, critically and culturally aware, linguistically attuned, and historically engaged. Drawing on the wide-ranging body of criticism dedicated to Bergvall's work and material from Bergvall's archive, together with newly commissioned texts by scholars, theorists, linguists, translators, and poets, this book situates the trilogy in relation to key themes including mixed temporalities; interdisciplinarity and performance; art and activism; and the geopolitical, psychosexual, and social complexities of subjectivity. It follows routes laid down by the trilogy to move between the medieval past and our contemporary moment to uncover new forms of encounter and exchange.

When the mind turns more than one would wish towards questions of – as W.G. Sebald puts it – the “natural history of destruction”, comparative consideration by artists and interdisciplinary scholars is directed to the interstices between images, novel, essay, (auto)biography, memorial and travelogue. Artists have been among Sebald's most prolific interpreters – as they are among the more fearless and holistic researchers on questions concerning what it means never to be able to fix an identity, to tell a migrant's story, or to know where a historical trauma ends. Sebald has - as this book attests - also given artists and scholars a means to write with images, to embrace ambiguity, and to turn to today's migrants with empathy and responsibility; as well as to let academic research, creation and institutional engagement blend into or substantially inform one another in order to account for and enable such necessary work in the most diverse contexts.

Leonardo's Fables explores the compositional methods and sources of Leonardo's fables and their relationship to illustrations and scientific studies. By concentrating on the chaotic character of Leonardo's textual and visual annotations, the author gradually discloses the artist's creative thinking that uses the page as a space for experimentation. Fables allow Leonardo to tie together his technical and artistic skills, empirical observation, and experience to reveal the interactive forces at the basis of physical phenomena and the tensions between painting and humanistic culture. This study reevaluates Leonardo's fables as part of a literary, aesthetic, and scientific project aimed at the investigation of Nature.

Qui connaît aujourd'hui Aveux non avenus, Dons des féminines, Hexentexte, La Dame ovale, La Maison de la Peur, Le Cœur de Pic, Le Livre de Leonor Fini, Le Poids d'un oiseau, Oiseaux en péril ou Oracles et spectacles, autant d'œuvres hybrides réalisées entre 1930 et 1975 selon l'idéal surréaliste du travail collaboratif, à l'instigation d'une écrivaine? Véritable changement de paradigme éditorial, le Livre surréaliste, objet à part entière, qui prend son origine dans l'écriture à quatre mains, n'a presque jamais un seul auteur. Il déploie des rapports texte/image d'une grande variabilité et appelle une lecture croisée entre l'écrit et le pictural. Cet ouvrage se propose de combler une lacune de recherche en s'intéressant à un corpus à tort négligé par la critique littéraire et artistique. Dix cas de figure emblématiques sont analysés quant aux modalités de démarche collaborative (« au féminin », « mixte » ou « en dualité créatrice ») afin de répondre à la question suivante : qu'en est-il d'une esthétique avantgardiste au féminin, d'une communauté d'auteures et d'artistes qui s'est constituée malgré elle grâce au livre, espace de rencontre et creuset de partage?

Intermediality, figurability, iconotext, visual exegesis: these are some of the many new ways in which the relationship between text and image has been explored in recent decades. Scholars have benefited from theoretical work in the fields of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and semiotics, alongside more traditional fields such as literature, art history and cultural history. Focusing on religious texts and images between 1400 and 1700, the essays gathered in this volume contribute to these developments by grounding their case studies in methodology. In considering various relations between the visual and the verbal, the editors have adopted the broadest position possible, emphasizing the phenomenological point of view from which the objects under discussion are examined. Contributors to this volume: Ralph Dekoninck, Anna Dlabačová, Grégory Ems, Ingrid Falque, Agnès Guiderdoni, Walter S. Melion, Kees Schepers, Paul J. Smith, and Elliott D. Wise.

El libro, más allá de ser un mero soporte textual, debe ser considerado como una obra de arte en sí misma y como un medio de comunicación a muy diferentes niveles. Es un artefacto físico en cuya materialidad intervienen las más variadas técnicas; pero también es un espacio en el que lo textual y lo icónico interactúan, posibilitando un ámbito de mutua influencia entre literatura y artes plásticas. Nuestro propósito es presentar el libro desde sus más variadas dimensiones, ofreciendo un recorrido lo más completo y novedoso: desde su carácter material hasta el valor simbólico que lo rodea; desde su concepción más práctica hasta la más artística; desde su función como medio para conocer otros espacios y tiempos hasta su capacidad para adaptarse a los retos de la era digital.

El arte y la literatura, en estos ensayos, aparecen como instancias democráticas y necesarias para un nuevo mundo. La idea de que un artista no puede y no debe separarse de su entorno es repetida una y otra vez en los textos, que nos muestran a una Woolf que cree en un mundo distinto al que conoció: una literatura y un arte nuevos. Solo podemos imaginar la reacción que tendría en una época donde la información es lo más fácil de conseguir. Pero sus palabras siguen llamándonos a apoderarnos de la literatura y a hacerla nuestra, en vez de dejarla en las manos de la elite. Como la propia Virginia dice:'la literatura no es terreno privado de nadie', así que no hay razones para no disfrutarla nosotros mismos.

Can form be political? Do specific aesthetic and literary forms necessarily point us toward a progressive or reactionary politics? Artists, authors, and critics like to imagine so, but what happens when they lose control of the politics of their forms? In Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature, Mitchum Huehls argues that art's interest in revolution did not end with the twentieth century, as some critics would have it, but rather that the relationship between literary forms and politics has been severed, resulting in a twenty-first century investment in forms of generality such as genre, gesture, constructivism, and abstraction. Focusing on three particular domains (art, theory, and revolution) in which the relationship between form and politics has collapsed, Huehls shows how twenty-first-century US fiction writers such as Chris Kraus, Percival Everett, Jonathan Safran Foer, Rachel Kushner, Salvador Plascencia, and Sheila Heti are turning to forms of generality that lead us toward a more modest, ad hoc, context-dependent way to think about the politics of form. The result is the first major study of generality in literature.

Jefferson tended to classify the books of his libraries under the Baconian headings of memory, reason, and imagination, which corresponded to history, philosophy, and the fine arts. Thus, education in the Fine Arts, which Jefferson listed as eight, was considered an indispensible part of the life of an educated person—especially a Virginian. An educated person needed knowledge of architecture, gardening, painting, sculpture, rhetoric, belle lettres, poetry music, and criticism, considered as a sort of meta-art. Knowledge of such arts was indispensible because each person, thought Jefferson, was equipped with a faculty of taste as well as ratiocination and a moral-sense faculty—each of which required cultivation for human thriving. An uncultivated imagination would severely impair ratiocination and moral sensitivity. This book is the first book-length attempt to flesh out and critically assess Jefferson's views on taste and the Fine Arts. It is a must read for any serious biographer of Jefferson.

This book comprehensively examines the relationship between literature and sculpture in the work of W. B. Yeats, drawing on extensive archival research to offer revelatory new readings of the poet. The book traces Yeats's literary and critical engagement with Celtic Revival statuary, public monuments in Dublin, the coin designs of the Irish Free State, abstract sculpture by the Vorticists and modernists, and a variety of carvings, decorative sculptures, and objets d'art. By charting Yeats's early art school education in Dublin, his attempts to raise funds for public monuments in the city, and to secure commissions for his favourite sculptors, the book documents a lifelong interest in the plastic arts. New and original readings of Yeats's poetry, drama, and prose criticism emerge from this concertedly inter-arts and interdisciplinary study.

An examination of a series of diverse, radical, and experimental international works from the 1950s to the present.What is a literary work? In Literature's Elsewheres, Annette Gilbert tackles this question by deploying an extended concept of literature, examining a series of diverse, radical, experimental works from the 1950s to the present that occupy the liminal zone between art and literature. These works—by American Artist, Allison Parrish, Natalie Czech, Stephanie Syjuco, Fiona Banner, Elfriede Jelinek, Dan Graham, Robert Barry, George Brecht, and others—represent a pluralized literary practice that imagines a different literature emerging from its elsewheres. Investigating a work's coming into being—its transition from “text” to “work” as a social object and pragmatic category of literary communication—Gilbert probes the assumptions and foundations that underpin literature, including the ideologies and power structures that prop it up. She offers a snapshot from a period of recent literary and art history when such central concepts as originality and authorship were questioned and experimental literary practices ranged from concrete poetry and Oulipo to conceptual writing and appropriation literature. She examines works that are dematerialized, site-specific, unique copies of other works, and institutional critiques. Considering the inequalities, exclusions, and privileges inscribed in literature, she documents the power of experimental literature to attack these norms and challenges the field's canonical geographic boundaries by examining artists with roots in North and South America, East Asia, and Western and Eastern Europe. The cross-pollination of literary and art criticism enriches both fields. With Literature's Elsewheres, Gilbert explores what art can't see about the literary and what literature has overlooked in the arts.

This is the first monograph to analyse Beckett's use of the visual arts, music, and broadcasting media through a transdisciplinary approach. It considers how Beckett's complex and varied use of art, music, and media in a selection of his novels, radio plays, teleplays, and later short prose informs his creative process. Investigating specific instances where Beckett's writing adopts musical or visual structures, Lucy Jeffery identifies instances of Beckett's transdisciplinarity and considers how this approach to writing facilitates ways of expressing familiar Beckettian themes of abstraction, ambiguity, longing, and endlessness. With case studies spanning forty years, she evaluates Beckett's stylistic shifts in relation to the cultural context, particularly the technological advancements and artistic movements, during which they were written. With new examples from Beckett's notebooks, critical essays, and letters, Transdisciplinary Beckett evidences how the drastic changes that took place in the visual arts and in musical composition influenced Beckett and, in turn, were influenced by him. Transdisciplinary Beckett situates Beckett as a key figure not just in the literary marketplace but also in the fields of music, art, and broadcasting.

La situation de crise que nous traversons laisse craindre ou espérer un changement profond. C'est aussi celle des mots et des images. Et si les frontières de l'oeuvre d'art ne sont pas clairement définies, celles du sujet ne le sont pas davantage. Ses frontières sont malléables, dépendantes des contrées extérieures auxquelles il se frotte sans cesse. C'est un sujet en mouvement dans une société toujours plus rapide, plus performante, plus financiarisée. Cependant, l'agitation qui l'habite n'a pas pour seule origine un univers sociétal économique. Les espaces ou objets esthétiques, naturels ou méditatifs influent également. Qu'il soit créateur ou spectateur, le sujet se confronte à l'oeuvre d'art. Les arts et la littérature sont ici convoqués pour penser le rapport du sujet à son identité et au monde. En quoi les arts contribuent-ils à la construction du sujet? En quoi la rencontre avec l'oeuvre agit-elle sur son identité? Comment le sujet est-il'à l'oeuvre'lorsqu'il rencontre ou crée des oeuvres?