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Introduction |
Affinity between Literature and Visual Art
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks." (Simonides)
"As is painting so is poetry." (Horace)
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Tang Yin |
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Qi Baishi |
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Zhang Daqian |
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Chu Ge |
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Luo Qing (Lo Ch'ing) |
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William Blake |
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John Keats |
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Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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Concepts of Mimesis
Plato |
The Republic, Book X | |
Aristotle |
The Poetics | |
Philostratus |
Imagines |
The Power of Art
Gorgias |
Encomium of Helen | |
Horace |
Ars Poetica | |
Pliny |
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The Long Conversation between Painting and Poetry
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