Sister arts
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+ | <small>Illustration: ''[[Laocoön and His Sons]]'' ("[[Clamores horrendos]]" detail), photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen.</small>]] | ||
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- | :For a detailed history of [[literary pictorialism]], see [[Jean H. Hagstrum]], ''The Sister Arts: The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray'' (1958; Chicago and London: U. of Chicago Press, 1987). Useful insights of the text-image dynamic can be found in the work of [[W. J. T. Mitchell]], especially ''[[Iconology: Image. Text. Ideology]]'' (1986; Chicago and London: U. of Chicago Press, 1987). | + | |
+ | The [[sister arts]] theory was an 18th century theory introduced in England by [[Dryden]]'s preface to the translation, in 1695, of [[Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy]]'s treatise ''[[De arte graphica]]'' (1668). | ||
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+ | :"Painting and Poesy are two sisters; which are so like in all things, that they mutually lend to each other both their Name and Office. One is called a dumb Poesy, and the other a speaking Picture" --[[John Dryden]] | ||
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+ | *[[Ut pictura poesis]] | ||
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+ | *''[[The Sister Arts: The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray]]'' | ||
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The sister arts theory was an 18th century theory introduced in England by Dryden's preface to the translation, in 1695, of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy's treatise De arte graphica (1668).
- "Painting and Poesy are two sisters; which are so like in all things, that they mutually lend to each other both their Name and Office. One is called a dumb Poesy, and the other a speaking Picture" --John Dryden
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