Image, Eye and Art in Calvino

by Birgitte Grundtvig

Overview

Few recent writers have been as interested in the cross-over between texts and visual art as Italo Calvino (1923-85). Involved for most of his life in the publishing industry, he took as much interest in the visual as in the textual aspects of his own and other writers' books. In this volume twenty international Calvino experts, including Barenghi, Battistini, Belpoliti, Hofstadter, Ricci, Scarpa and others, consider the many facets of the interplay between the visual and textual in Calvinos works, from the use of colours in his fiction to the influence of cartoons, from the graphic qualities of the book covers themselves to the significance of photography and landscape in his fiction and non-fiction. The volume is appropriately illustrated with images evoked by Calvino's major texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351563284
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	25 MB
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About the Author

Birgitte Grundtvig

Table of Contents

Le Square Introduction Part I: Image 1. Calvino's Colours 2. Colours, Landscapes and the Senses in Difficult Loves 3. The Visual in Cosmicomics: Myth and Classical Rhetoric 4. Images and Scientific Knowledge in Calvino 5. Recreating Visibility in Literary Translation: How to Code Space in Italian and in Danish 6. The Significance of Visibility: Interpreting the Image in Calvino Part II: Eye 7. Innanzi Tutto, Aprire Leggermente, Ovvero... Contemplations About Language: Verbosities, Infelicities, Nonsensicalities, Oddities 8. Calvino at Play: Rules and Games for Writing in Space 9. The Dizzying Gaze: Calvino's Thesis, the First Novel, and Conrad as a Model of Visibility 10. From the Vantage Point of Hindsight': Viewing Calvino's Landscape 11. Leaning from the Steep Slope...': The Fall of the Cartographic Eye in Calvino's Late Works 12. Language and the Brain's 'Mental Cinema' Part III: Art 13. From Picasso to Dürer: Calvino's Book Covers 14. Italo Calvino and the Fantastic Iconology of Cartoons 15. The Photographic Image: Calvino 'in Dialogue' with Barthes, Sontag and Baudrillard 16. Ekphrasis: The Problem of Representing Visual Art in the Works of Italo Calvino and Per Højholt 17. Signs and Visuality in Italo Calvino's Narratives 18. Calvino and Klee: Variations of Line Part IV: Ekphrasis 19. The Painter of Absence 20. The Arrow in the Mind: A Review of 'The Mechanism of Meaning' 22. Calvino's Apartment in Rome: An Imagined Space