Mute poetry, speaking pictures
By: Leonard Barkan
Series: Essays in the arts
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780691141831
Subjects: Visual communication; Art and literature; Written communication
Description: The author argues that painters long for the rich significance of language while poets yearn for the direct sensuousness of painting.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Visible and invisible; title: Apples and oranges; title: Desire and loss; title: The theater as a visual arrt; title: Afterword.