Vision in Text and Image

by Hoen, Herman W.; Kemperink, Mary G.

• ISBN13: 9789042920422
• ISBN10: 9042920424
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-30
• Publisher: Peeters Pub & Booksellers

Summary

This volume contains the essays presented at the conference that was held on 19-21 October 2005 at the University of Groningen under the auspices of the Groningen Institute for the Study of Culture (ICOG). The conference was meant to be an occasion where the Groningen research into culture both past and present, as it occurs within ICOG, could present itself. The theme, Vision in Text and Image, was chosen on the one hand as a wide umbrella for practically the entire body of research being conducted in ICOG (from classical archaeology to modern literature), and on the other as a reference, albeit a modest one, towards a new, more context-oriented approach to text and image. In that sense the volume pinpoints to methodological strands of the study of arts. Nowadays there is little impetus to analyse literary texts and works of visual art per se, as was much more the case in the 1960s and 1970s. So, more attention has been paid to the ties between text/image and the surrounding contemporary culture. Furthermore, the study of arts is no longer considered as totally separate from the study of non-artistic images and texts, either methodologically or ideologically. It is the aim of this volume to reveal the shifts in divisions of labour within the study of arts. Apart from a keynote speech delivered by Jurgen Pieters, professor of literary theory at the University of Ghent, the book contains contributions from all disciplines within ICOG: from young PhD students as well as from senior staff members. Through their practical approach to research, and in some cases also by way of theoretical reflection, they illustrate the dynamics and interchange that characterise the relationship between text/image and culture.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements vii
Introduction to Vision in Text and Image. Arts and Culture: a Complex and Dynamic Relationship	p. ix
Contributors xvii
Why in Politics Depth is on the Surface	p. 1
The Powers of Fiction and the Conversation with the Dead	p. 17
Creating Frameworks: The Social Function of the Ghent Altarpiece	p. 33
Picturing the Intermediary. Artistic Consciousness in Representations of Saint Luke Painting the Virgin in Netherlandish Art: The Case of Van der Weyden's Saint Luke	p. 53
Gothic Architecture as Self-representation: Henric Piccardt and the Church of Harkstede	p. 67
'Come all ye Artless, take Pleasure in Learning!' The role of Education in allegorical Plays performed at the Antwerp Landjuweel of 1562+1	p. 85
Kotzebue's Misanthropy and Repentance (1790) in the Netherlands	p. 101
The Duty of Us All to help Mankind: Literary Representation of Toynbee-work in the Netherlands around 1900	p. 115
Ubu Reporter: News and Newspapers in Alfred Jarry's Almanachs	p. 127
The discursive Strategy of a subversive Genre: the Introduction of the Interview in U.S. and European Journalism	p. 143
The Abuse of History: Demarcations, Definitions, and Historical Perspective	p. 159
Bibliography	p. 175
Index	p. 195
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