Visuality in the Works of Siri Hustvedt
Title:
Visuality in the Works of Siri Hustvedt
Author:
Reipen, Corinna Sophie.
ISBN:
9783653042306
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Publication Information:
Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (251 pages)
General Note:
6.3.2 ""Painted Image"": Miranda's Portrait of Eglantine.
Contents:
Cover; Vorwort; Table of Contents; 1 Introduction to the Author: Siri Hustvedt; 2 The Development of a Theoretical Model; 2.1 Text, Picture and Image; 2.1.1 Picture and Text; 2.1.2 Picture and Image; 2.2 Image-Text-Relationship; 2.2.1 Image and Text; 2.2.2 Siri Hustvedt: Selected Novels; 2.3 Ways of Seeing Visual Arts; 2.3.1 The Intersubjective Encounter of Artwork and Observer; 2.3.2 Art and Empathy: Experiences in the Body; 3 Dimensions of the ""Visual Image""; 3.1 Who Sees? The Eye of the Narrator; 3.1.1 Location in Time: Telling in Retrospect; 3.1.2 Location in Space: New York City.
3.2 Forms and Functions of the ""Visual Image""3.2.1 ""Real Painted Image"": Existing Paintings as Text; 3.2.2 ""Painted Images"": In-Between Painting and Narrative; 3.2.3 ""Photographic Images"": In-Between Photography and Narrative; 4 The Blindfold (1992); 4.1 Research Reports and Reviews; 4.2 Who Sees? Iris Vegan; 4.2.1 Location in Time: Fragmented Memories; 4.2.2 The Setting: New York City Wrapped in Language; 4.3 Forms of the ""Visual Image""; 4.3.1 ""Real Painted Image"": Giorgione's ""The Tempest"" (1504).
4.3.2 ""Real Painted Images"": Giorgione's ""The Tempest"" versus Wiertz's ""The Novel Reader""4.3.3 ""Photograhic Image"": George's Photograph of Iris; 4.4 Conclusion: Postmodern Fragmentation; 5 What I Loved (2003); 5.1 Research Reports and Reviews; 5.2 Who Sees? Leo Hertzberg; 5.2.1 Location in Time and Space: The ""mental flâneur""; 5.2.1.1 ""Painted Image"": Leo and His Wife Erica; 5.2.2 Leo's Narrative; 5.2.2.1 ""Real Painted Image"": Chardin's ""Glas of Water and a Coffee Pot""; 5.2.2.2 ""Real Painted Image"": Goya's ""Black Paintings"" and ""Los Caprichos""
5.3 ""Painted Image"": William Wechsler's ""Self-Portrait"": "a fierce geometry among us"5.3.1 Violet: The Woman in Men's Clothes; 5.3.2 Lucille: The Woman Walking Away; 5.3.3 The Shadow of Men; 5.3.4 The Yellow Cab; 5.3.5 The Bruise: Boundaries of the Body; 5.4 Other Works by William Wechsler: Art that tells a Story; 5.4.1 Missing Men (September 1979); 5.4.2 Hysteria Constructions (October 1983); 5.4.3 Fairy Tale Boxes; 5.4.3.1 Hansel and Gretel (1984); 5.4.3.2 The Changeling (Summer of 1987); 5.4.4 O's Journey; 5.4.5 Door Installations (October 1994).
5.4.6 William Wechsler in the Changing Zeitgeist of New York's Art Scene5.5 Teddy Giles' Art and His Complicity in Capitalism; 5.5.1 ""Photographic Images""; 5.5.2 A Deconstructed ""Painted Image""; 5.6 Conclusion: Post-modern Art in a Post-post-modern Narrative; 6 The Sorrows of an American (2006); 6.1 Research Reports and Reviews; 6.2 Who Sees? Erik Davidson; 6.2.1 Location in Time and Space: The Year of 2003; 6.2.2 Erik's Narrative and his Family of Writers; 6.3 ""Visual Images"": The Analysis of Others; 6.3.1 ""Painted Image"": Miranda's Drawing of a Monster.
Abstract:
This book analyzes Siri Hustvedt's three novels The Blindfold, What I Loved and The Sorrows of an American with a focus on visual art. Siri Hustvedt is one of the most popular American writers today and her work is predominantly concerned with art historical and psychological themes. The author of this book investigates the function of paintings and photographs in Hustvedt's novels and conceives of verbal representations of artworks as extended metaphors. Her analysis includes verbal descriptions of Giorgione's The Tempest, Chardin's Glass of Water and a Coffee Pot and Goya's Black Paintings a.
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