CALL FOR PAPERS

«piano b. Arti e culture visive»

Writings of the Image

Edited by Marco Antonio Bazzocchi, Claudio Marra, Filippo Milani

The meeting and interaction between literature and visual culture, while phenomena well rooted from a historical perspective, have further intensified and enriched during the twentieth century and the new millennium. In light of this broad and articulated range of interests, the new call for papers by “piano b” seeks contributions that can reflect, with full methodological and thematic freedom, on the outcomes of this stimulating collaboration. Proposals will therefore be welcomed that investigate the presence of various types of images (paintings, photographs, film stills, etc.) that function within literary texts, both as producers of narrative writings and as elements that give rise to various forms of iconotextual expressions. In particular, the interest is generally directed at writers who engage with the visual within their works or make it the starting point for creative paths, including through the direct use of drawing and photography, or in collaboration with artists from various fields (painters, photographers, illustrators). Another research perspective could be biographical accounts of writers or artists, in which images play a decisive role. An additional point of interest concerns how major art historians have used photographic materials to illustrate works analyzed in their scholarly writings. A common thread across all these lines of inquiry is the narrative role of ekphrasis as a rhetorical strategy aimed at describing images on the page, in an attempt to translate an image into words as effectively as possible, engaging the reader’s sense of sight and imagination.

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