Appel à contribution : “Dialogues Between Images and Texts”, The Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athènes, 8-11 juin 2020, date limite le 4 novembre 2019
This symposium considers how images and texts come into dialogue in the visual and the performing arts. Historically, the interest in the relation of the visual to the textual derives from the philosophical debates around ekphrasis and as to whether painting or poetry is more adequate in expressing thoughts and emotions (cf. Lessing’s Laocoon). Meanwhile, Da Vinci praises both, each medium excelling in its own way. In modern times, visual and textual juxtapositions become central...