Cultivating Picturacy

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Literacy and Picturacy: How Do We Learn to Read Pictures?

2. Speaking of Pictures: The Rhetoric of Art Criticism

3. Alberti on Apelles: Word and Image in De Pictura

4. Text and Design: Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience

5. Marginal Language: Word and Image in Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion

6. Painting Against Poetry: Reynolds' Discourses and the Discourse of Turner's Art

7. Wordsworth, Constable, and the Poetics of Chiaroscuro

8. Self-Representation in Byron's Poetry and Turner's Art

9. Looking at the Monster: Frankenstein and Film

10. Love, Death, and Grotesquerie: Beardsley's Illlustrations of Wilde's Salome and Pope's Rape of the Lock

11. Hockney Remakes Hogarth: A Gay Rake Progresses to America

12. Peter Milton's Turn: Painting, Photography, and Printmaking at the Turn of the Millennium

13. Reza, Pollock, Richter: Language and Abstract Art

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Works Cited

Index