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Carlo Levi's visual poetics : the painter as writer
- Title
- Carlo Levi's visual poetics : the painter as writer / Giovanna Faleschini Lerner.
- Author
- Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini, 1972-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 12-6805 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xx, 192 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "What does it mean for a painter to remain a visual artist even as a writer? Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics engages this question through a critical re-examination of one of the most influential Italian intellectuals of the twentieth century, the painter and writer Carlo Levi. Reading Levi's major texts through the lens of his philosophical and critical essays, the author explores the ways in which the productive dialogue between word and image inherent in his works becomes an instrument of literary and political subversion and contributes to the development of Levi's original humanistic cultural program"--
- Series Statement
- Italian and Italian American studies
- Uniform Title
- Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-6805
- ISBN
- 9780230390645 (hardback)
- 0230390641 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2012013262
- OCLC
- 785068358
- Author
- Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini, 1972-
- Title
- Carlo Levi's visual poetics : the painter as writer / Giovanna Faleschini Lerner.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Italian and Italian American studiesItalian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-6805