Author: HUNT, John Dixon ed.
Title: Encounters. Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts.
Description: Studio Vista, 1971. Hardcover. Condition vg in dj. B/W plates. Explores the encounters between the written word & the visual imagination from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Examines Piers Plowman, "...analogies between the Elizabethan arts, the obsession with the idea of ut pictura poesis during the 17th century, modes of examining artistic structures in the eighteenth, parallels between Turner and English romantic poetry, Dickens' debt to the traditions of graphic caricature..." etc. 176pp.

Keywords: art visual history historical criticism literature literary