Carlo Levi's visual poetics
Subtitle: the painter as writer
By: Giovanna Faleschini Lerner
Series: Italian and Italian American studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780230390645
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; Criticism and interpretation; HISTORY / Europe / Western; LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
Description: "What does it mean for a painter to remain a visual artist even as a writer? Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics engages this question through a critical re-examination of one of the most influential Italian intellectuals of the twentieth century, the painter and writer Carlo Levi. Reading Levi's major texts through the lens of his philosophical and critical essays, the author explores the ways in which the productive dialogue between word and image inherent in his works becomes an instrument of literary and political subversion and contributes to the development of Levi's original humanistic cultural program"--