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Author:   James A. W. Heffernan
Publisher:   Baylor University Press
Imprint:   Baylor University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.866kg
ISBN:  

9781932792416

ISBN 10:   1932792414
Pages:   437
Publication Date:   30 September 2006
Audience:   Adult education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Literacy and Picturacy: How Do We Learn to Read Pictures? 2. Speaking of Pictures: The Rhetoric of Art Criticism 3. Alberti on Apelles: Word and Image in De Pictura 4. Text and Design: Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience 5. Marginal Language: Word and Image in Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion 6. Painting Against Poetry: Reynolds' Discourses and the Discourse of Turner's Art 7. Wordsworth, Constable, and the Poetics of Chiaroscuro 8. Self-Representation in Byron's Poetry and Turner's Art 9. Looking at the Monster: Frankenstein and Film 10. Love, Death, and Grotesquerie: Beardsley's Illlustrations of Wilde's Salome and Pope's Rape of the Lock 11. Hockney Remakes Hogarth: A Gay Rake Progresses to America 12. Peter Milton's Turn: Painting, Photography, and Printmaking at the Turn of the Millennium 13. Reza, Pollock, Richter: Language and Abstract Art Notes Works Cited Index

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Wide-ranging, steadily insightful, and richly illustrated, Cultivating Picturacy offers both a method and a model for reading the visual image. Cultivating Picturacy will stand alongside the works of Norman Bryson, Nelson Goodman, and W. J. T. Mitchell as a fundamental contribution to the field of inter-art scholarship. - ERNEST B. GILMAN, New York University During the past 25 years, James Heffernan's nuanced and clear-eyed writings on words and images have firmly placed him among the finest practitioners of inter-artistic theory and criticism. This new volume reveals him at his very best. Picturacy should be required reading for anyone wishing to learn how - and how not - to read pictures. - RICHARD WENDORF, The Boston Athenaeum

During the past 25 years, James Heffernan's nuanced and clear-eyed writings on words and images have firmly placed him among the finest practitioners of interartstic theory and criticism. This new volume reveals him at his very best. Picturacy should be required reading for anyone wishing to learn how--and how not--to read pictures. --Richard Wendorf, Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian, The Boston Athenaeum Wide-ranging, steadily insightful, and richly illustrated, Cultivating Picturacy offers both a method and a model for reading the visual image. Cultivating Picturacy will stand alongside the works of Norman Bryson, Nelson Goodman, and W. J. T. Mitchell as a fundamental contribution to the field of inter-art scholarship. Ernest B. Gilman, New York University

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James A. W. Heffernan (Ph.D. Princeton) is Professor Emeritus of English at Dartmouth College

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