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This volume of original essays by an international group of scholars investigates verbal-visual relations, broadly conceived, in the modern period. Through a wide variety of theoretical and critical approaches, the book considers how thinkers in aesthetics, poetry, visual art, philosophy, and book illustration have approached the problematic relationship between the verbal and the visual.
Conjunctions honors the work of pioneering interarts scholar Renée Riese Hubert. Contributors include Michel Deguy, Judd D. Hubert, Claude Gandelman, Laurie Edson, Marjorie Perloff, Roger Shattuck, Georges Roque, Sydney Lévy, Anne-Marie Christin, Richard Vernier, Breon Mitchell, Steven Winspur, Roger Cardinal, Robert W. Greene, Eric T. Haskell, Harriett Watts, Willard Bohn, and Virginia A. La Charité. The book also includes a biography and list of Hubert’s publications.