Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780719083242)

Writing for art is a concise introduction to the subject of ekphrasis, and the first study to offer a useful general survey of the larger philosophical and theoretical questions arising from the encounter of literary texts and artworks. Stephen Cheeke offers close readings of poems and prose from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries alongside a generous amount of illustrations, covering a broad range of writing and theory about the relation of literary texts to the visual arts, and extending the subject of ekphrasis to include literary works on photography, as well as celebrated prose descriptions of artworks.

Author: Stephen Cheeke
ISBN-10: 0719083249
ISBN-13: 9780719083242
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2010
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d