Kate Bush and Musical Ekphrasis
“This is somebody who’s not afraid of …being a door between the world of books and the world of rock” Neil Gaiman on Kate Bush.
a brigade of aesthetic police.
Must be my favourite quote about the shadowy nature of ekphrasis. “Everywhere in ekphrastic studies we encounter the language of subterfuge, of conspiracy, there is something taboo about moving across media,…
“The enormity of the descriptive act cannot be exaggerated or overstated. It constitutes a movement from art to text, from visual to verbal, that is inevitably a betrayal.”
Jas Elsner in his 2010 essay ‘Art History as Ekphrasis’
in Journal Art History (33, 1, pp. 10-27)
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
Snow Code – Bruce Munro
I spoke to Bruce about his new work that uses language. He told me that he was fascinated with Morse code because it abstracts language.