Subject: Visible and invisible -- Apples and oranges -- Desire and loss -- The theater as a visual arrt -- Afterword
"The skirmish between painting and poetry-from Plato and Praxiteles to Rembrandt and Shakespeare Why do painters sometimes wish they were poets-and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters? What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Lati…
The author argues that painters long for the rich significance oflanguage while poets yearn for the direct sensuousness of painting.
Visible and invisible -- Apples and oranges -- Desire and loss -- The theater as a visual art -- Afterword.
The author argues that painters long for the rich significance of language while poets yearn for the direct sensuousness of painting.