Words in the Gallery
  • Words at the Black Swan
    • About
    • Questionnaire 2015
    • Questionnaire Results
  • Wordworks
  • Words Sessions
    • All Sessions
    • 1. Retort – Charlie Murphy
    • 2. Talking About Painting – Christopher Bucklow
    • 3. If you could see what I see through your eyes – Mark Karasick
    • 4. The Place Beyond – Edwina Bridgeman
    • 5. Where the Earth Meets the Sky – Rachel Anne Grigor
    • 6. Séamus Moran
    • 7. Charlotte Moore ‘Off the Wall’
    • 8. SKETCH 2013
    • 9. Print and Clay
    • 10. Fifthwall – Tristan Stevens
    • 11. Jim Whitty – Flux
    • 12. Black Swan Arts Young Open 2015
    • 14. Fitzcaraldo – Dan Hampson
  • Research

Book Review

Home Research Book Review
Murray Krieger. Ekphrasis: The Illusion Of The Natural Sign

Murray Krieger. Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign

  • Book Review, Books about Ekphrasis

Krieger focusses on the literary desire to recreate a 'natural sign' and the inevitable frustration as the interpretation can never be the actual sign but a suggestion. When poets and artists…

Read More→
Neruda’s Ekphrastic Experience

Neruda’s Ekphrastic Experience

  • Book Review, Books about Ekphrasis, Ekphrastic Notes

Mendez-Ramirez argues that when Pablo Neruda’s writing was influenced by the Mexican Mural movement.

Read More→
Twentieth Century Poetry And The Visual Arts

Twentieth Century Poetry and the Visual Arts

  • Book Review, Books about Ekphrasis

  Twentieth Century Poetry and the Visual Arts Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux This is an excellent book if you are interested in poetic ekphrasis from a traditional western cultural perspective. The book…

Read More→
Categories
  • Book Review
  • Books about Ekphrasis
  • Definitions
  • Ekphrasis in the Gallery
  • Ekphrasis Reading List
  • Ekphrastic Notes
  • Examples of Ekphrasis
  • Journal Articles
  • Musical Ekphrasis
  • Notes
  • Poetic Ekphrasis
  • Poetry Notes
  • Quotes
  • Uncategorized
  • Web results
  • Word Art Collaborations
  • Word in Art
  • Words at the Black Swan
Some Posts
  • Kate Bush And Musical Ekphrasis
  • Snow Code – Bruce Munro
  • Murray Krieger. Ekphrasis: The Illusion Of The Natural Sign
  • Paul Newman And Jill Harris
  • Words And Art At The Rice Gallery
  • Fiona Banner
Kim Wood 2015
Email