Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures - Essays in the Arts - Leonard Barkan - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691141831 - November 25, 2012
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Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures - Essays in the Arts


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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 painting? This title answers these questions.


208 pages, 40 halftones.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released November 25, 2012
ISBN13 9780691141831
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 208
Dimensions 240 × 163 × 17 mm   ·   556 g
Language English  

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