Title: Getting the picture
First published: 1997
Description: This book takes a probing look at how Spanish poets of the twentieth century read objects of visual art, write poems that utilize the discursive strategy known as ekphrasis, and how, in turn, they are read by those texts. As a result of their reading practices, the artistic works "read" by the poets are inscribed in the poets' own texts, and in a variety of ways.

This analysis sheds light on the poets' own distinctive stance toward many primary issues, such as textuality, representation, language, power, ideology, literature, and art.
Subjects: History and criticism, Spanish poetry, Ekphrasis, Spanish poetry, history and criticism
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PQ6085 .P37 1997