Description
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This work analyses the relationship between visual art and contemporary art fiction by addressing the problem of the ekphrastic re-presentation and re-interpretation of an Impressionist figure painting through its composition, selected details of the painting and allusion to specific techniques used in the process of creating the masterpiece based on the examples of the following novels: Luncheon of the Boating Party (LOTBP) by Susan Vreeland (2007), Mademoiselle Victorine (MV) by Debra Finerman (2007), With Violets (WV) by Elizabeth Robards (2008), Dancing for Degas (DFD) by Kathryn Wagner (2010) and The Painted Girls (TPG) by Cathy Marie Buchanan (2013).
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IntroductionIntermediality: Narrative Texts and Visual Arts2.1. Verbal and Visual Overstepping of Boundaries2.1.1. Evolution of the Definition of Ekphrasis2.1.2. The Diversity of Ekphrastic Relationships2.2. Perception, Re-presentation and the Making of Meaning2.3. Intermedial Interaction in Contemporary Art Fiction2.3.1. The Communicative Category2.3.2. The Re-presentational Category2.3.3. The Interpretive CategoryCommunication3.1. Verbal Elements3.2. Visual ElementsRe-presentation4.1. The Process of Making an Artwork: Labour4.1.1. Inspiration for the Painting4.2. Models and Modelling in Art-fictional Figure Paintings4.2.1. The Boating Party4.2.2. Opportunists, Dancers, Lovers4.3. Selected Visual Details and ColourInterpretation5.1. Perceived versus Intended Meaning5.2. Paintings Viewed on Display5.3. Revisiting Images and Looking at Collections5.4. Art CriticismConclusionBibliography
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Lyutsiya Staub is an ELT Consultant for Macmillan Education (part of Springer AG Publishing) in Switzerland as well as ateacher of English.
