Art in Texts

1. Prerequisites: The relationship art - text in connection to a global visual culture has been reconsidered and above all the semiotic aspects have been subject to new theories in the extensive discussion of "pictorial turn" or "iconic turn" during the last decades. Simultaneously numerous empiric studies were made focusing on "art quotations" in the works of certain authors. The "missing link" between those two fields is a systematic documentation of the references to art during a certain literary period. Such a documentation could not only be a commentary on the individual "imaginary museums" of writers but also define collective donors of images and visual poetological concepts typical of a generation. Interdisciplinary and intermedial aspects have to be taken into account at each stage of collecting material. 2. Definition of the field of research: The "art quotation" reflecting the visual construction of reality gained a new poetological quality resulting from media innovations / innovative media / in the eighties of the nineteenth century. At the same time the literature of a speech area is linked to its own traditions of usage of images with regard to linguistics and literary history. In the German-speaking countries those traditions stretch from Lessing`s "Laokoon" and painters novels in the Romantic period, to the analogous imagery of Poetic Realism. With theses parameters it is possible to limit the amount of material sensibly - referring to a European memory of images. 3. Aim of the project: The aim is a documentation of the references to art in the works of approximately 250 authors. Each presentation consists of - a list of references to art in the author`s literary work - the identification of the works of art (artist, date of origin, place, museum, owner etc.); - selected quotations from texts, images quoted from works of art; - a bibliography of secondary literature. The examples will be put into context in articles summarizing the theoretical and methodical aspects; four registers (authors / artists, texts / works of art) will make the examples accessible. 4. Applicability: The documentation is aimed at - commenting on the references to art of individual authors - registering various literary topics with regard to works of art - denoting groups of images and texts as collective memory. This empiric material will finally be available for literary historical as well as art historical questions and therefore be a basis and a corrective for theories of the art - text relationship.

1. Prerequisites: The relationship art - text in connection to a global visual culture has been reconsidered and above all the semiotic aspects have been subject to new theories in the extensive discussion of "pictorial tunt" or "iconic tunt" during the last decades. Simultancously numerous empiric studies were made focusing an "art quotations" in the works of certain authors. The "missing link" between those two fields is a systematic documentation of the references to art during a certain literary period. Such a documentation could not only be a commentary an the individual "imaginary museums" of writers but also define collective donors of images and visual poetological concepts typical of a generation. Interdisciplinary and intermedial aspects have to be taken into account at each stage of collectivg material. 2. Definition of the field of research: The "art quotation" reflecting the visual construction of reality gained a new poetological quality resulting from innovative media in the eighties of the nineteenth century. At the same time the literature of a speech area is linked to its own traditions of usage of images with regard to linguistics and literary history. In the German-speaking countries those traditions streich front Lessing`s "Laokoon" and painters novels in the Romantic period, to the analogous imagery of Poetic Realism. With theses parameters it is possible to limit the amount of material sensibly- referring to a European memory of images. 3. Aim of the project: The aim is a documentation of the references to art in the works of approximately 250 authors. Each presentation consists of a list of references to art in the author`s literary work the identification of the works of art (artist, date of origin, place, museum, owner etc.); selected quotations from texts, images quoted from works of art; a bibliography of sevondary literature. The examples will be put into context in articles summarizing the theoretical and methodical aspects; four registers (authors / artists, texts / works of art) will malte the examples accessible. 4. Applicability: The documentation is aimed at commenting an the references to art of individual authors registering various literary topics with regard to works of art ? denoting groups of images and texts as collective memory. This empiric material will finally be available for literary historical as well as art historical questions and therefore be a basis and a corrective for theories of the art - text relationship.