Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures

by Leonard Barkan

The skirmish between painting and poetry--from Plato and Praxiteles to Rembrandt and Shakespeare

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? In Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691141835
• ISBN13: 9780691141831
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"