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The world’s great poets interpret the world’s great art in this exquisite book that investigates the connection between art and words, deepening our understanding of both. The poet and the artist share a special kind of vision—an ability to see and penetrate the very essence of their subjects. This volume features poems by writers who turned to paintings for their inspiration, as well as paintings by artists who based their works on poems. Stretching across centuries and styles,
this collection includes Rossetti’s haunting sonnet based on
Botticelli’s Primavera; Wallace Stevens’s The Man with the Blue
Guitar, a masterful meditation on an iconic painting by Picasso;
William Carlos Williams’s joyous interpretations of scenes by
Breughel; and Adrienne Rich lending a compassionate voice
to the subject of Edwin Romanzo Elmer’s The Mourning Chair.
These and other pairings appear as elegant texts facing full
page, glowing

Sunlight on the River Poems About Paintings Paintings About Poems

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    Publisher: Prestel Publishing
    Publication Date: 11/10/2015
    ISBN13: 9783791354774, 978-3791354774
    ISBN10: 3791354779

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

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    Description

    The world’s great poets interpret the world’s great art in this exquisite book that investigates the connection between art and words, deepening our understanding of both. The poet and the artist share a special kind of vision—an ability to see and penetrate the very essence of their subjects. This volume features poems by writers who turned to paintings for their inspiration, as well as paintings by artists who based their works on poems. Stretching across centuries and styles,
    this collection includes Rossetti’s haunting sonnet based on
    Botticelli’s Primavera; Wallace Stevens’s The Man with the Blue
    Guitar, a masterful meditation on an iconic painting by Picasso;
    William Carlos Williams’s joyous interpretations of scenes by
    Breughel; and Adrienne Rich lending a compassionate voice
    to the subject of Edwin Romanzo Elmer’s The Mourning Chair.
    These and other pairings appear as elegant texts facing full
    page, glowing

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