 Fifth International Conference On Word & Image
‘VISUAL CULTURES’
Scripps College, Claremont/CA, 14-20 March 1999
MONDAY 15 MARCH
- 9.00 – 10.30 OPENING PLENARY SESSION (Chair: David Scott)
- David Scott (Trinity College) “Visual Cultures: Minding the Gap”
- Charlotte Schoell-Glass (Universität Hamburg) “The Visual Turn”
- Ed Tan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) “Digital cultural heritage and word and image studies”
- Yoshiaki Shimizu (Princeton University) “Cultural Models”
- 11.00 – 12.30 SESSIONS 1
- 1A PHILOSOPHICAL PICTURES I (Chair: W.J.T. Mitchell and Daniel Tiffany)
- Papers by Marjorie Perloff and Sam Weber
- 1B EKPHRASIS I (Chair: Joseph Stanton)
- Tamar Yacobi (Tel-Aviv) “Ekphrastic Double Exposure”
- Valerie Robillard (Groningen) “On Chasing down the Greased Pig: The Hunter’s Guide to Conjectural Ekphrasis”
- Auli Viikari (Helsinki) “Enargeia Reconsidered”
- 1C ART CRITICISM & SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS OF ART (Chair: Leo Hoek and Dario Gamboni)
- Michèle Hannoosh (St Catherine’s College, Cambridge) “Delacroix and Poussin”
- L. Cassandra Hamrick (Saint Louis) “L’art, l’argent et la critique d’art”
- Dani Cuypers (VU Amsterdam) “Written paintings: positions and ambitions in the art-critical discourse of 1855”
- 14.00 – 15.30 SESSIONS 2
- 2A PHILOSOPHICAL PICTURES II (Chair: W.J.T. Mitchell and Daniel Tiffany)
- François Noudelmann (Poitier) “The Ambivalence of Image: Presence and Absence in the Philosophical Discourse”
- Jonathan Bordo (Trent) “Theory, philosophy, and glass: windows, transparency, and optical hypoicons from Port Royal to Duchamp”
- Deborah Levitt (Southern California) “Drive-By: Duchamp and ‘The Large Glass'”
- 2B EKPHRASIS II (Chair: Claus Clüver)
- Siglind Bruhn (Michigan) “A concert of paintings: “Musical Ekphrasis” in the Twentieth Century”
- Karin Beeler (Northern British Columbia) “Transformed Bodies: Ekphrasis, Opera and the Art of Resistance”
- Anna Hollsten (Helsinki) “The Cathedral of art. Ekphrasis and Metapoetics in Bo Carpelan’s Urwind“
- 2C ART CRITICISM & SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS OF ART II (Chair: Leo Hoek and Dario Gamboni)
- Leo Hoek (VU Amsterdam) “The landscape according to Zola: W & I relations investigated through art criticism, art conceptions and art institutions”
- Laura Malosetti Costa (Buenos Aires) “The example of Millet: The role of the press in the process of emergence of a public space for fine arts in Buenos Aires [1880-1900]”
- Barbara Wright (TCD) “A Third Replublic variant on The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns: The Case of Fromentin”
- 16.00 – 17.30 SESSIONS 3
- 3A PHILOSOPHICAL PICTURES III (Chair: W.J.T. Mitchell and Daniel Tiffany)
- Maria Scott (TCD) “The murderous face to face confrontation of writing and drawing in Derrida’sMemoires d’Aveugle“
- John Welchman (UCSD) “Deleuze’s pictures of thought: diagram, line, film, and face”
- 3B EKPHRASIS III (Chair: Tamar Yacobi)
- Kathleen Lundeen (Western Washington) “Prophetic Ekphrasis”
- Michael Vincent (Wichita State) “The Primal Scene of Ekphrasis: Speaking, Writing, and Picturing in Philostratus’s Eikones“
- Jean P. Arnold (Claremont) “‘Be Stone No More’: Ekphrasis, Myth, and the Revision of Woman’s Identity
- Danuse Ksikova (Brno) “Ekphrasis and Binary Talents”
- 3C ART CRITICISM & SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS OF ART III (Chair: Leo Hoek and Dario Gamboni)
- Dario Gamboni (Case Western Reserve) “Redon and Huysmans. Suggestion and ekphrasis: the study of art criticism between reception history, institutional analysis, and hermeneutics”
- Leslie Stewart Curtis (John Carroll) “Jean Lorrain and Jeanne Jacquemin: critical musings, collusion and collaboration”
- Richard Hobbs (Bristol) “Whistler and the French: l’art charmant de se faire des amis“
- 17.45 – 18.45 SPECIAL SESSION
- ILLUSTRATING ALICE, related to exhibition, followed by the vernissage of “Pictures Worth a Thousand Words: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated.”
- Eric T. Haskell (Scripps) “Down the Rabbit Hole: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Image-Text Inquiry”
- Renée Riese Hubert (Irvine) “Salvador Dali as a Reader of Alice in Wonderland“
TUESDAY 16 MARCH
- 9.00 – 10.30 SESSIONS 4
- 4A DANCE, IMAGE, TEXT (Chair: Dee Reynolds)
- David Gere (London) “How you can tell a dance is about AIDS”
- Jools Gilson-Ellis (University College Cork) and Richard Povall (Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Ohio) “Motion-Sensing Technologies and Choreography: The play of bodies and text in contemporary dance performance”
- Henry Daniel (King Alfred’s College, Winchester) “Movement, image, text and technology in contemporary theatrical performances”
- 4B EXPERIMENTAL POETICS & WORD AND IMAGE STUDIES I (Chair: Eric Vos)
- Willard Bohn (Illinois State) “Visual Poetry in Catalonia: Vicenç Solé de Sojo”
- Eric Robertson (London) “Blaise Cendrars and the Visual Arts: a Poetics of Movement”
- artist’s presentation: Stefan Ferreira Clüver (San Francisco): “Concrete Poetry Into Cinema: vai e vem”
- 4C NARRATIVE/NARRATOLOGY I (Chair: David Carrier)
- Alessandra Galizzi Kroegel (Milano) “Narrative Strategies in the Renaissance Iconography of the Immaculate Conception”
- Veronique Plesch (Colby College) “Body of Evidence: Devotional Graffiti in a Piedmontese Chapel”
- Cordula Grewe (Hemmingen) “Painting as Language: A prolegomenon to a new reading of late Romantic painting in Germany”
- Cynthia Hahn (Florida State) “Engraved on the Heart: The Power of the Visual in Saints’ Stories”
- 11.00 – 12.30 SESSIONS 5
- 5B EXPERIMENTAL POETICS & WORD AND IMAGE STUDIES II (Chair: Eric Vos)
- Sérgio Bessa (New York) “The Entitlement of Concrete Poetry (With a consideration of its framing effect)”
- Renée Riese Hubert (Irvine) “A Reading of Steve McCaffery’s Carnival“
- Eric Vos (Eemnes) “Multimedial Surfaces of Visual Poetry”
- 5C NARRATIVE/NARRATOLOGY II (Chair: Cynthia Hahn)
- Morten Kyndrup (Aarhus) “Picture: Representation and Image Dispersion in Jeff Wall and the Sjuzyet/fabula-problem in Pictures”
- Marcia Brennan (Sharon) “Narratives of Visual Corporeality: Arthur Dove and Georgia O’Keefe”
- Teresa Bridgman (Bristol) “Inside/outside, then/now: Constructing and Interpreting Spatio-Temporal Worlds of Experience in bande dessinée“
- Valerie Mainz (Leeds) “The Distribution of the Eagles on the Champ-de-Mars: Glory, Ceremony and Representation”
- 14.00 – 15.30 SESSIONS 6
- 6A ANCIENT AND “NON-WESTERN” CULTURES I (Chair: James J. Yoch)
- Tania C. Tribe (London) “The final Journey of Queen Nefertari: A Study in Ancient Verbal-Visual Intertextuality”
- Masako Watanabe (Metropolitan Museum, NY) “Images Beyond Words: Illustrated Handscrolls from Medieval Japan”
- Joshua Mostow (Heidelberg), “Supplementarity in Visual and Verbal Texts and the Work of Hishikawa Moronobu (ca. 1618-1694)”
- Suzanne E. Wright (Stanford) “Epistolatory Practice and Image-Text Relationships in China”
- 6B EXPERIMENTAL POETICS & WORD AND IMAGE STUDIES III (Chair: Philadelpho Menezes)
- Wilton Azevedo (Mackenzie, São Paulo) “Interpoesia: Hypermedia Poetics”
- Philadelpho Menezes (PCU, São Paulo) “Interactive Poems: Intersign Prospective for Experimental Poetry”
- 6C THEORIES OF ILLUSTRATION I (Chair: Peter de Voogd)
- Yoshiaki Shimizu (Princeton) “Materiality and tactility in the oldest written text of the Tale of Genji“
- David MacArthur (Florida State) & Susan Woodward-MacArthur “Not Just Child’s Play: Picture Books for a Postmodern World”
- Beth S. Wright (Texas) “‘That other historian, the illustrator’: Voices, vignettes, and romantic, liberal historiography in mid-19th-century France”
- 16.00 – 17.30 SESSIONS 7
- 7A ANCIENT AND “NON-WESTERN” CULTURES II (Chair: James J. Yoch)
- J. Kathryn Josserand and Nicholas A. Hopkins (Florida State) “The Art of Political Discourse in Classic Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions”
- Sarah Brett-Smith (Rutgers) “Bamana ritual cloth and its relationship to Arabic amulets and divination tools”
- Angeline Morrison (NCAD, Dublin) “Why have there been no great black artists?”
- 7B EXPERIMENTAL POETICS & WORD AND IMAGE STUDIES IV (Chair: Eric Vos)
- Friedrich Block (Kassel) “Body, Mind, and Semiotic Space: Diabolizing the Modern Recipient”
- Harry Polkinhorn (San Diego State) “The Return of the Artist”
- Conclusion / discussion with all session panelists / ‘opening’ of the virtual exhibition of electronic, interactive poetry
- 7C THEORIES OF ILLUSTRATION II (Chair: Peter de Voogd)
- K. Porter Aichele (Greensboro) “Paul Klee and illustration: ‘Rich in content, abstract in form'”
- Marie-Claire Barnet (Southampton Institute) “Exquises esquisses by Gisèle and Mario Prassinos: The craftswoman, the writer and her brother”
- Nigel Saint (Royal Holloway) “Convergences and conflicts of interest: Interpreting the illustrated books of Pierre Lecuire and Geneviève Asse”
WEDNESDAY 17 MARCH
- Paper session at Huntington: HYBRID CULTURES IN THE GARDEN
- Elizabeth Kryder-Reid (Indiana, Purdue) “Narrative and Nature in the California Mission Garden”
- James J. Yoch (Oklahoma) “Outposts of Empire: Villas and Temples on the Shores of California,”
- Bruce A. Coats (Scripps) “Subtle Misunderstandings: America’s Yen for the Japanese Garden”
THURSDAY 18 MARCH
- 9.00 – 10.30 SESSIONS 8
- 8A SEMIOTICS OF WORD & IMAGE I (Chair: Michel Costantini)
- Michel Costantini (Paris 8) “Portrait of Philostratus as a semiotician (about The Looms)”
- Andres Mario Zervignon (Harvard) “Re-appraising Dada: Hugo Ball’s ‘destruction’ of verbal and visual languages”
- Nathalie Roelens (Nijmegen/Antwerpen) “L’éloquence du profil”
- 8B POWER STRUCTURES I (Chair: Peter de Voogd)
- Ulla-Britta Lagerroth (Lund) “Powerful gazing at ‘the female nude’: A gendered approach to the interart traffic between word and image”
- Marga van Mechelen (University of Amsterdam) “replay and interplay”
- Yona Dureau (Lyon) “The talisman, or The word as object and image-signifier”
- 11.00 – 12.30 SESSIONS 9
- 9A SEMIOTICS OF WORD & IMAGE II (Chair: Michel Costantini)
- Tim Walters (Northeast Louisiana) “The Studebaker Corporate Periodical: Myth, Reality, and the Visualization of Corporate Responsibility”
- Benoît Heilbrunn (Lyon) “Les rapports texte-image dans une perspective sémiotique”
- 9B POWER STRUCTURES II (Chair: Peter de Voogd)
- Wanda Strauven (Antwerpen) “A fourth dimension in Marinetti’s writings”
- Fumiko T. Togasaki (Wittenberg University) “The emergence of the autonomous images in premodern Japanese verbal-visual text”
- Martin Heusser (Zürich) “Master signs of the American dream: landscapes in 19th-century American painting and writing”
- 9C MOVING WORD & IMAGE I (Chair: Seymour Chatman)
- Claudia Gorbman (Washinton at Tacoma) “Attention: Background Music and Song Scores”
- Sarah Kozloff (Vassar) “Talking Heads”
- Alain J.-J. Cohen (UC San Diego) “Sergei Eisenstein’s comments on painters of the Italian Renaissance”
- 14.00 – 15.30 SESSIONS 10
- 10A IDENTITY SIGNS (Chair: Benoît Heilbrunn)
- Francois Edeline (Tilff) “Le monogramme: Un genre intersémiotique”
- Monique Thollet-Burdaga (Université Lyon 2 Luminère) “Les mots sur l’image: discours projectif et les processus de renversement mobilisés par l’image”
- Beatrice Fraenkel (Université Paris) “Qu’est-ce qu’un sceau? Actualité d’un signe archaïque”
- 10B POPULAR WORD & IMAGE CULTURES I (Chair: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe)
- Iain Baird (Robert Gordon, Aberdeen) “Wording the image or imaging the word? Image use in British quality newspapers 1965-1995”
- Rex Butler (Univ. of Queensland)
- Brigid McLeer (Dartington Art College) “In place of the page”
- 10C MOVING WORD & IMAGE II (Chair: Seymour Chatman)
- Kamilla Elliott (Berkeley) “Versions”
- Seymour Chatman (Berkeley) “Word and image in the cinema”
- 16.00 – 17.30 SESSIONS 11
- 11A MULTI-MEDIA CULTURES (Chair: Yves Jeanneret)
- Yves Jeanneret (Université de Lille III – CNRS) “Écriture multimedia, visualité et valeures culturelles”
- Emmanuel Souchier (ENST – CNRS) “L’image du texte dans l’écrit d’écran”
- Annie Gentès (ENST – CNRS) “Modèles de l’amateur de culture dans les cédéroms culturels”
- Marie Desprès-Lonnet and Katell Briatte (Université de Lille III – CNRS) “Publics, patrimoine iconique et interface”
- 11B POPULAR WORD & IMAGE CULTURES II (Chair: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe)
- Colin Gardner (Santa Barbara) “‘One Can’t Look’. John Baldessari’s untimely meditation on Goya’s disasters of war”
- Leonard Sanders (Komazawa) “Popular visual cultures in Japan: Idoru and Evangelion“
- 11C METAVISUAL TRACE IN DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE (Chair: Thierry Boucquey)
- Judd D. Hubert (Irvine) “Visual Staging in Classical French Récit”
- Thierry Boucquey ( Scripps) “Scenes in Scenes: Theatrical ‘Proverbiality’ in Flemish Renaissance Engraving”
- Leonard C. Pronko (Pomona) “The Multiple Signifiers of Kabuki”
FRIDAY 19 MARCH
- Day and evening at the Norton Simon and Getty Museums
Paper session at Getty: MUSEUM CULTURE(S) (Chair: Eric T. Haskell)
- Shelley M. Bennett (Huntington) “‘An imperishable monument’: the Formation of Henry E. Huntington’s Art Collection”
- Marion True (J. Paul Getty Museum) “Imperial Associations: J. Paul Getty as Collector of Ancient Art”
- Suzanne Muchnic (Los Angeles) “From Catsup to Culture: The Man Behind the Norton Simon Museum”
SATURDAY 20 MARCH
- 9.00 – 10.30 SESSIONS 12
- 12A VERBAL-VISUAL COGNITIONS: VERSIONS OF SELF (Chair: Nancy van Deusen)
- Peter Schwenger (Mount Saint Vincent) “Psychographesis”
- 12B HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES I (Chair: Michèle Hannoosh)
- Penny Florence (Falmouth College) “Mallarme’s Un coup de dés: the poem-as-virtual”
- Margriet Schavemaker (Amsterdam) “Primal seeing and meta-pictures in high-modernist art”
- Jeroen Boomgaard (Amsterdam) “The Talking Image”
- 12C IMAGES OF THE OTHER I (Chair: Claus Clüver)
- Elvira Vilches (Wisconsin-Milwaukee) “Show and Tell: Shards of America in Early Modern Europe”
- Claus Clüver (Indiana) “Devouring the Other: Implications of Anthropophagy in Nelson Pereira dos Santos’s How tasty was my little Frenchman“
- Nancy Brcak and John R. Pavia (Ithaca College) “Enemy Images: Representations of the Other in American and Japanese Wartime Propaganda”
- 11.00 – 12.30 SESSIONS 13
- 13A BODY ART (Chair: Christa Buschendorf)
- Michael D. Garval (North Carolina State) “Veiled phalluses and an outrageous ‘erection’: Envisioning the great male writer in 19th century France”
- Peter Wagner (University Landau) “Spotting the symptoms. (Beauty) spots in Hogarth’s Graffic Art“
- 13B HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES II (Chair: Michèle Hannoosh)
- Clare Lapraik Guest (TCD) “Iconography, ordering and mundum: word and image in the Florentine intermidii”
- Shari Addonizio (Florida State) “Martha Rosler’s photo-texts The Bowery“
- 13C IMAGES OF THE OTHER II (Chair: Claus Clüver)
- Therese De Raedt (Davis) “OURIKA in Black and White: Images of Color in Mme de Duras’s Novel (1823)”
- Jennifer Pap (Denver) “The Cyclops’ View: Watching the Other in Ponge’s Essays on Giacometti“
- Clara Orban (DePaul) “The Erotic Other in Hervé Guibert’s Photographic Novels”
- 14.00 – 15.30 CLOSING PLENARY SESSION (Chair: David Scott)
- The closing plenary will be an open discussion of selected topics from the week’s papars led by the plenary panel: Charlotte Schoell-Glass, Yoshiaki Shimizu, Ed Tan and David Scott (chair).
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On Verbal/Visual Representation. Word & Image Interactions 4
Editors: Martin Heusser, Michèle Hannoosh, Eric Haskell, Leo Hoek and Peter de Voogd
Published by Editions Rodopi (Amsterdam/New York NY), 2005. |
Contents
ART, CRITICISM, TASTE
Dario GAMBONI : “Redon and Huysmans, ‘Suggestion’ and ‘Transposition d’Art’: Art Criticism between the History of Reception, the Sociology of Culture and Hermeneutics” 13-21
Lauren S. WEINGARDEN : “The Mirror as a Metaphor of Baudelairean Modernity” 17-36
Barbara WRIGHT : “A Third Republic Variant on the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns: The Case of Fromentin” 23-31
Dani CUYPERS : “The Recognition Factor in French Art Criticism in 1855” 33-42
Laura MALOSETTI COSTA : “The Example of Millet: The Role of the Press in the Emergence of a Public Space in Buenos Aires (1880-1900)” 43-52
Leo H. HOEK : “Zola vis-à-vis the Barbizon Landscape: Art Criticism and Art Institutions” 53-61
BOOKS, BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS, TYPOGRAPHY
Eric T. HASKELL : “Down the Rabbit Hole: ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ and Image-Text Inquiry” 65-73
Renée RIESE HUBERT : “A Reading of Steve McCaffery’s ‘Carival'” 75-82
Nigel SAINT : “Pierre Lecuire and the Artists” 83-93
Fumiko T.TOGASAKI : “The Emergence of the Autonomous Image in Pre-modern Japanese Word and Image Text” 95-107
REPRESENTING CULTURAL CONCEPTS
Charlotte SCHOELL-GLASS : “The Iconic Turn and the Commemoration of Destruction” 111-122
John C. WELCHMAN : “Images of Thought and Deleuze’s Pictures: Diagram, Line, FIlm and Face” 123-135
Leonard SANDERS : “Visual Ephemeralities: ‘Idoru’ and ‘Evangelion’, Popular Visual Cultures in Japan” 137-149
Martin HEUSSER : “Cultural Appropriation and National Identity: The Landscapes of Albert Bierstadt and James Fenimore Cooper” 151-159
BORDER-CROSSING
Francis EDELINE : “Le monogramme – Un genre intersémiotique” 163-178
Véronique PLESCH : “Body of Evidence: Devotional Graffiti in a Piedmontese Chapel” 179-191
Marie-Claire BARNET : “‘Exquises esquisses’ by Gisèle and Mario Prassinos: The Craftswoman, the Writer and Het Brother” 193-205
Wanda STRAUVEN : “A Fourth Dimension in Marinetti’s Writing” 207-217
Tamar YACOBI : “Ekphrastic Double Exposure: Blake Morrison, Francis Bacon, Robert Browning and Fra Pandolf as Four-in-One” 219-227
THEORETICAL EXPLORATIONS
Ed TAN : “The Digital Cultural Heritage and Word and Image Studies” 231-238
Maria SCOTT : “Textual ‘Trompe-l’oeil’ in Jacques Derrida’s ‘Memoirs of the Blind'” 239-249
David SCOTT : “Visual Cultures: Minding the Gap” 251-256 |
