Suggested Reading

 

Journals:

Word and Image: A Journal of Visual/Verbal Enquiry, https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/twim20/current

The Ekphrastic Review
https://www.ekphrastic.net/

The Ekphrasis Magazine
https://ekphrasismagazine.weebly.com/online

The Light Ekphrastic:

Submissions

Note: The Light Ekphrastic seeks artists and writers interested in collaboration resulting in the creation of new works inspired by the old. Those chosen will be paired with another artist (a poet with a painter, for instance), and each will create a new piece based on their partner’s previous work. The old and new works will be presented together on TLE.

 

Volumes of Ekphrastic Poetry 

Murray Dewart, ed: Poems About Sculpture (London: Everyman Library), 2016

Marilyn Chandler Mcentyre, In Quiet Light: Poems on Vermeer’s Women (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.), 2000.

Marilyn Chandler Mcentyre, Drawn to the Light: Poems on Rembrandt’s Religious Paintings (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.), 2003.

Stanton, Joseph, Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art (St Louis: Time Being Books), 1999.

Stanton, Joseph, Things Seen (Columbus: Brick Road Poetry Press), 2016.       To order: http://brickroadpoetrypress.com/order-books/things-seen-by-joseph-stanton

Stanton, Joseph. Moving Pictures (Brunswick, Maine: Shanti Arts), 2019. To order: https://www.shantiarts.co/uploads/files/stu/STANTON_MOVING.html

Williams, William Carlos, Pictures from Breughel and Other Poems (New York: New Directions), 1962.

Riach, A. ed: The Hunterian Poems: An Anthology of Poems to Paintings from the collection of The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow (Glasgow, Freight Books), 2015.
Contributing poets:
Meg Bateman, Elizabeth Burns, Jim Carruth, Stewart Conn, Lesley Duncan, Gerrie Fellows, John Glenday, David Kinloch, Liz Lochhead, Aonghas MacNeacail, Peter McCarey, Edwin Morgan, Liz Niven, Janet Paisley, John Pursur, Alan Riach, Jeffrey Robinson, Kathrine Sowerby, Gerda Stevenson, Sheila Templeton, Rab Wilson

World Make Way: New Poems Inspired by Art from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
APRIL 17, 2018 BY MARY ANN CAPPIELLO (ages 4 and up)
Edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Published by Abrams Books for Young Readers with The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Color and Line
by Carole Mertz
Publisher: January, ( Kelsay Books:  Aldrich Press, 2021)

Pretty Time Machine: Ekphrastic Prose Poetry  – January, 2020
by Lorette C. Luzajic  (Mixed Up Media book, 2020)

Bending Toward Heaven: Poems After the Art of Vincent van Gogh
Sharon Fish Mooney (Eugene, Oregon: Resources Pub, 2016

Novels Based on Paintings

Avery, Ellis, The Last Nude (New York: Riverhead), 2012.

Buchanan, Marie, Painted Girls (New York: Riverhead), 2013.

Chessman, Harriet Scott, Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper (New York: Seven Stories Press), 2001.

Chevalier, Tracy, The Girl With The Pearl Earring (New York: Plume/Penguin), 1999/2005.

Hickey, Elizabeth, The Painted Kiss (New York: Simon and Schuster), 2005.

Tart, Donna, The Goldfinch (New York: Little, Brown, and Co ), 2013.

Vreeland, Susan, The Girl in Hyacinth Blue (New York: Penguin), 1999.

Vreeland, Susan, Luncheon of the Boating Party (New York: Viking), 2007.

Ward, Katie, Girl Reading (London: Virago Press), 2011.

 

SECONDARY READING

Roberto E. Aras: “«Ecfrasis» y «sinfronismos» en la ruta de Ortega hacia El Quijote” (“Ekphrasis” and “synphronism” on Ortega’s route to Don Quixote), in Disputatio. Philosophical Research Bulletin 8:10 (December 2019): 0-00 (18 p.)

Andrew Sprague Becker: The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995. ISBN 0-8476-7998-5

Emilie Bergman: Art Inscribed: Essays on Ekphrasis in Spanish Golden Age Poetry. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979. ISBN 0-674-04805-9

Siglind Bruhn: Musical Ekphrasis: Composers Responding to Poetry and Painting. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2000. ISBN 1-57647-036-9
Siglind Bruhn: Musical Ekphrasis in Rilke’s Marienleben. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi Publishers, 2000. ISBN 90-420-0800-8
Siglind Bruhn: “A Concert of Paintings: ‘Musical Ekphrasis’ in the Twentieth Century,” in Poetics Today 22:3 (Herbst 2001): 551–605. ISSN 0333-5372
Siglind Bruhn: Das tönende Museum: Musik interpretiert Werke bildender Kunst. Waldkirch: Gorz, 2004. ISBN 3-938095-00-8
Siglind Bruhn: “Vers une méthodologie de l’ekphrasis musical,” in Sens et signification en musique, ed. by Márta Grabócz and Danièle Piston. Paris: Hermann, 2007, 155–176. ISBN 978-2-7056-6682-8
Siglind Bruhn, ed.: Sonic Transformations of Literary Texts: From Program Music to Musical Ekphrasis [Interplay: Music in Interdisciplinary Dialogue, vol. 6]. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-57647-140-1

Frederick A. de Armas: Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8387-5624-7Frederick A. de Armas: Quixotic Frescoes: Cervantes and Italian Renaissance Art. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-4426-1031-6

Robert D. Denham: Poets on Paintings: A Bibliography. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010) ISBN 978-0-7864-4725-1

Barbara K Fischer: Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry. New York: Routledge, 2006. ISBN 978-0-415-97534-6

Claude Gandelman: Reading Pictures, Viewing Texts. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-253-32532-3

Jean H. Hagstrum: The Sister Arts: The Tradtition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1958.

James Heffernan: Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN 0-226-32313-7

John Hollander: The Gazer’s Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. ISBN 0-226-34949-7

Gayana Jurkevich: In pursuit of the natural sign: Azorín and the poetics of Ekphrasis. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8387-5413-9

Mario Klarer: Ekphrasis: Bildbeschreibung als Repräsentationstheorie bei Spenser, Sidney, Lyly und Shakespeare. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2001. ISBN 3-484-42135-5

Gisbert Kranz: Das Bildgedicht: Theorie, Lexikon, Bibliographie, 3 Bände. Köln: Böhlau, 1981–87. ISBN 3-412-04581-0
Gisbert Kranz: Meisterwerke in Bildgedichten: Rezeption von Kunst in der Poesie. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1986. ISBN 3-8204-9091-4
Gisbert Kranz: Das Architekturgedicht. Köln: Böhlau, 1988. ISBN 3-412-06387-8
Gisbert Kranz: Das Bildgedicht in Europa: Zur Theorie und Geschichte einer literarischen Gattung. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1973. ISBN 3-506-74813-0

Murray Krieger: Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8018-4266-2

Norman Land: The Viewer as Poet: The Renaissance Response to Art. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-271-01004-5

Hans Lund: Text as Picture: Studies in the Literary Transformation of Pictures. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 1992 (originally published in Swedish as Texten som tavla, Lund 1982). ISBN 0-7734-9449-9

J. D. McClatchy: Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-520-06971-8

Hugo Méndez-Ramírez: Neruda’s Ekphrastic Experience: Mural Art and Canto general. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8387-5398-1

Richard Meek: Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7546-5775-0

W.J.T. Mitchell: Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. ISBN 0-226-53231-3

Margaret Helen Persin: Getting the Picture: The Ekphrastic Principle in Twentieth-century Spanish Poetry. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8387-5335-3

Valerie Robillard and Els Jongeneel (eds.): Pictures into Words: Theoretical and Descriptive Approaches to Ekphrasis. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1998. ISBN 90-5383-595-4
Maria Rubins: Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures: Ekphrasis in Russian and French Poetry. New York: Palgrave, 2000. ISBN 0-312-22951-8

Grant F. Scott: The Sculpted Word: Keats, Ekphrasis, and the Visual Arts. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994. ISBN 0-87451-679-X

Grant F. Scott: “Ekphrasis and the Picture Gallery”, in Advances in Visual Semiotics. Ed. Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok. New York and Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1995. 403–421.
Grant F. Scott: “Copied with a Difference: Ekphrasis in William Carlos Williams’ Pictures from Brueghel”. Word & Image 15 (January–March 1999): 63–75.

Mack Smith: Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition. University Park: Pennsylvania State U Press, 1995. ISBN 0-271-01329-X

Leo Spitzer: “The ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, or Content vs. Metagrammar,” in Comparative Literature 7. Eugene, OR: University of Oregon Press, 1955, 203–225.

Ryan J. Stark, Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009), 181–90.

Peter Wagner: Icons, Texts, Iconotexts: Essays on Ekphrasis and Intermediality. Berlin, New York: W. de Gruyter, 1996. ISBN 3-11-014291-0

Robert Wynne: Imaginary Ekphrasis. Columbus, OH: Pudding House Publications, 2005. ISBN 1-58998-335-1

Tamar Yacobi, “The Ekphrastic Figure of Speech,” in Martin Heusser et al. (eds.), Text and Visuality. Word and Image Interactions 3, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999, ISBN 90-420-0726-5.
Tamar Yacobi, “Verbal Frames and Ekphrastic Figuration,” in Ulla-Britta Lagerroth, Hans Lund and Erik Hedling (eds.), Interart Poetics. Essays on the Interrelations of the Arts and Media, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997, ISBN 90-420-0202-6.