La presence de l'image: Yves Bonnefoy face a neuf artistes plastiques.
Date
1992
Authors
Pearre, Anja.
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Publisher
Dalhousie University
Abstract
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Yves Bonnefoy is one of the most widely appreciated French poets and thinkers of the present. This dissertation examines his relationship to the visual arts by way of nine artists frequently mentioned by him. Without limiting our study to his ekphrastic discourse, his criticism as such, or his collaborations in the genre of livre d'artiste, we attempt to follow the rather wide-flung and unpredictable repercussions of Bonnefoy's profound interest in these nine artists wherever it surfaces in his works.
The themes which mediate Bonnefoy's experience of art may include its iconography, gestures, style, technique, colour, metaphysics, and literary affinities. Embodied in the visual image or even attached to a single word, these themes sometimes carry over into Bonnefoy's own image repertory in poetry and prose. At other times this relationship is reciprocal or reversed: the conceptual and emotional tools Bonnefoy uses to approach a painting already exist in his previous writing. But in every case, the study of the relationships between the verbal and the visual image sheds considerable light on Bonnefoy's thinking.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1992.
The themes which mediate Bonnefoy's experience of art may include its iconography, gestures, style, technique, colour, metaphysics, and literary affinities. Embodied in the visual image or even attached to a single word, these themes sometimes carry over into Bonnefoy's own image repertory in poetry and prose. At other times this relationship is reciprocal or reversed: the conceptual and emotional tools Bonnefoy uses to approach a painting already exist in his previous writing. But in every case, the study of the relationships between the verbal and the visual image sheds considerable light on Bonnefoy's thinking.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1992.
Keywords
Literature, Romance., Fine Arts.