Writing for art: the aesthetics of Ekphrasis - Stephen.
There are notable differences between the two works not only in the quality of the poetry but also in the conceptual approaches of Marino and Mellini. 5 The practice of describing collections of paintings in literary form was fairly widespread, as shown by the poetic description of the collection of Cardinal Scipione Borghese written in 1613 by Scipione Francucci and published in Arezzo in.
Virgil uses ekphrasis-a self-contained aside that generates a pause in the narrative to describe a work of art or other object-to tell us something about the grander text in which it is embedded, says Michael C. J. Putnam. Individually and as a group, Virgil's ekphrases enrich the reader's understanding of the meaning of the epic. Putnam shows how the descriptions of works of art, and of.
This essay emerges as practice-based research generated by my own writing of ekphrastic poetry. It aims to articulate a poetics of diaspora engendered by this practice and its triggers, contexts, dynamics and strategies. In an investigation of questions about ekphrasis raised by literary criticism, the essay considers a network of traditional historical, literary and theoretical approaches.
Formal Analysis of Aztec Feathered Serpent Sculpture Facing out into the eyes of museum-goers, the Aztec feathered serpent sculpture currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art dates from between fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Though the iconographic motif of the feathered serpent is a common and meaningful one in Aztec art, the formal elements of this piece communicate an.
Murray Krieger’s influential essay on ekphrasis (1967), considered a seminal example of mid-twentieth-century ekphrasis criticism, proposes ekphrasis (in selected poems) as a principle for a poetics, later developed by Krieger as an approach to a wider poetics of criticism (Krieger 1992). In his 1967 essay, Krieger’s sets visual and verbal modes as oppositional, arguing that poetic.
After surveying recent comparative literary approaches to ecphrastic “intermediality,” the essay first analyzes theories of ecphrasis. is little doubt that Graeco-Roman writers and readers would have recognized the description of art as a paradigmatic example of ekphrasis with a significance relatively close to modern usage” (Elsner, 2002: 2; cf. Zeitlin, 2013: 18). Rather than.
Ekphrasis “Description” in Greek. An ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art. Through the imaginative act of narrating and reflecting on the “action” of a painting or sculpture, the poet may amplify and expand its meaning. A notable example is “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” in which the poet John Keats speculates on the identity of the lovers who.