Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Crossing Boundaries: The Search for a New Discourse -- New Ventures -- Old Ventures Reinvented: Ut Pictora Poesis -- Chapter Two: Painted Narrations: The Modernist Novel -- Lucía Jerez -- De Sobremesa -- Chapter Three: From Painting to Literary Text -- Pollice Verso: Life is a Broad Arena -- "Yesterday I Saw Her …" -- Shades of Moreau -- Addendum -- Chapter Four: Facing the Orient -- Chapter Five: Writers as Art Critics -- José Martí: European, American, and Mexican Art -- Darío: Europe, Japan, And Latin America -- José Juan Tablada: Parisian Impressions -- Chapter Six: An Epilogue and Conclusion: Words That Create Objects -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.