Introduction

Photographic Interventions

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ID4928873
AuthorsSilke Horstkotte, Nancy Pedri (0000-0002-1855-4381, 1 German, Leipzig)
Year2008
Volume29
Issue1
Pages1-29
Publication date2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePoetics Today (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/03335372-2007-015
OpenAlexW2126145866
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited54

Since the publication in 1989 of Poetics Today’s double issue “Art and Literature” (10:1 and 10:2), as well as the special issue devoted to “Lessing’s Laokoon: Context and Reception” ten years later (20:2), the multiple and varying relations of the visual and the verbal have become key issues within the humanities in general and in the formation of new inter-, multi-, or transdisciplinary fields of study in particular. Many theorists have positioned themselves against Lessing’s distinction between the verbal as a temporal art and the visual as a spatial art: instead, they accentuate the similarities between word and image and, hence, renounce the plurality of the arts. As early as 1970, Roland Barthes (1970: 7) had urged his readers

Psychological intervention · History · Literature and Cultural Memory · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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