Elective Affinities: Testing Word and Image Relationships. (Word & Image Interactions)

422 Pages·2009·10.74 MB·English

by  Catriona MacLeod

Elective Affinities
Testing Word and Image Relationships
Word & Image Interactions
6
Word & Image Interactions is a series of scholarly books
consisting of thematic collections of articles as well as outstand-
ing monographs, in English and French, dealing with a wide
variety of areas, problems, and applications within the broad
field of word and image studies (http://www.iawis.org/).
Series editors:
Michèle Hannoosh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Véronique Plesch, Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Charlotte Schoell-Glass, University of Hamburg
International Association of Word and Image Studies
Association Internationale pour l’Etude des Rapports
entre Texte et Image
Elective Affinities
Testing Word and Image Relationships
Edited by
Catriona MacLeod, Véronique Plesch
and Charlotte Schoell-Glass
Amsterdam - New York, NY 2009
Cover image: Edgar Fahs Smith Collection Rare Book and
Manuscript Library University of Pennsylvania
Cover Design: Rachel S. Tobie
The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO
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ISBN: 978-90-420-2618-6
E-Book ISBN: 978-90-420-2619-3
© Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2009
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ABLEOF ONTENTS
I
NTRODUCTION
C M L 11
ATRIONA AC EOD

S 19
UMMARIES
UNION
MICHAEL R. TAYLOR
Consulting the Manual:
Word and Image in Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés 31
ADRIANA DRAGOMIR
Living and Dying in the Limelight:
Performing the Self in Frida Kahlo’s Diary and Paintings 47
L W
AURENCE UIDAR
Imbrication de l’image, du texte et de la musique
dans un corpus de prières énigmatiques à la Vierge 61
C G
ORDULA REWE
The Künstlerroman as Romantic Arabesque:
Parody, Collaboration, and the Making of The Modern Vasari (1854) 77
K E. B
AREN ROWN
The “Inscapes” of Louis le Brocquy 99
ROBERT GRANT
American Scenery/Canadian Scenery:
Conflicting Views of Indigenes in Mid-Nineteenth-Century
British Portrayals of the American Continent 113
MIRIAM HARRIS
Cartoonists as Matchmakers: The Vibrant Relationship of Text
and Image in the Work of Lynda Barry 129
CONFLICT
S C
TEEN HRISTIANSEN
The Truth of the Word, the Falsity of the Image:
Transmetropolitan’s Critique of the Society of the Spectacle 147
D L
ANIELLE EENAERTS
Le magazine français Vu (1928–40):
Naissance de l’information visuelle et utopie de la substitution
de l’image photographique au texte écrit 159
H L
UBERT OCHER
From Ekphrasis to History: Verbal Transformations of the Display
of Picture Galleries—Wilhelm Heinse and Friedrich Schlegel 173
L S. W
AUREN EINGARDEN
Modernizing History and Historicizing Modernity:
Baudelaire and Baudelairean Representations of Contemporaneity 187
V N
ALENTIN USSBAUM
Serial Künstler: Portrait of the Artist as a Malefactor 205
J M
ONATHAN ARSHALL
Hypnotic Performance and the Falsity of Appearances:
The Aesthetics of Medical Spectatorship and Axel Munthe’s
Critique of Jean-Martin Charcot 221

EXPERIMENT
SUSANA OLIVEIRA
New Light and Old Shadows:
Industrial Illumination and its Imaginaire 243
J A. G
ENNIFER REENHILL
Illustrating the Shadow of Doubt:
Henry James, Blindness, and “The Real Thing” 261
E T. H
RIC ASKELL
Picturing Paradise: Baudelaire’s “L’Invitation au voyage” 281
J F
ULIA RIEDMAN
The Writing-Drawing Continuum of Alexei Remizov 299
S P
PYROS APAPETROS
Aby Warburg as Reader of Gottfried Semper:
Reflections on the Cosmic Character of Ornament 317
C C -W
RISTINA UEVAS OLF
John Heartfield’s Insects and the “Idea” of Natural History 337
M D G
ARÍA E UZMÁN
The Photographic Thought of Latina/o Literature
and Cultural Critique 355
S N -S
USAN URMI CHOMERS
Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein, Fassbinder:
Découpage Aesthetics on the Divide 369
B M
IRGIT ERSMANN
(Ideo-)Logical Alliances between Image and Script:
Calligraphic Reconfigurations in Contemporary Chinese Art 387
C 401
ONTRIBUTORS
I 409
NDEX

A__CK_N_O_W_LE_D_GE_M_E_N_TS_____________________________
The essays contained in this volume are based on papers presented at
the Seventh Triennial Conference on Word and Image Studies, “Elective
Affinities,” which was held from 23 to 27 September 2005 in Philadelphia,
U.S.A.
We would like to express our thanks, above all, to Richard “Tres” Lambert III,
who worked tirelessly on the layout of this volume and also read the copy and
offered numerous valuable suggestions. Rachel S. Tobie generously answered
technical queries and designed the cover. For practical and logistical help,
we are also grateful to Paul Guyer, Martina Bale, and Philip Miraglia at the
University of Pennsylvania. Finally, our sincere thanks to Esther Roth at
Rodopi for her patience and support.
Catriona MacLeod, University of Pennsylvania
Véronique Plesch, Colby College
Charlotte Schoell-Glass, University of Hamburg