The Seeming and the Seen

Verlag Peter Lang
The Seeming and the Seen
The Seeming and the Seen
Product Specifications
  • Title: The Seeming and the Seen
  • Author: The Seeming and the Seen
  • Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • The arts general issues
  • No. of pages: 373
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 157 x 225 x 20

Product Description

Taking their cue from the polymorphous relationship between word and image the essays of this book explore how different media translate the world of phenomena into aesthetic intellectual or sensual experience. They embrace the media of poetry fiction drama engraving painting photography film and advertising posters ranging from the early modern to the postmodern periods. At the heart of the volume lie essays on works that characteristically perform intriguing interactions between the verbal and visual modes. They discuss the manifold ways in which artists as different as William Blake or Gertrude Stein Diane Arbus or Stanley Kubrick heighten the tension between the linguistic and the seen. Taken both individually and collectively this volume's contributions illuminate the problematics of how readers and spectators/lookers transform verbal and visual representation into worlds of seeming.