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Spectral
Resemblances and Elusive Connections:
A Practice-led Research Dialogue between
Poetry and Digital Imagery |
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PAUL HETHERINGTON and ANITA FITTON |
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University of Canberra and the North Melbourne Institute of
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In the early 20th century the function
of poetic imagery was given international attention through
the Imagist movement in London and, ever
since, many poets have self-consciously employed and
exploited imagist techniques. At the same time poets and
visual artists have frequently
explored connections between each other’s works considering,
as Art Berman writes, that “the visual can provide direct
and even prelinguistic
knowledge since the psyche presumably has operations that
precede or take logical precedence over […] language” (49).
Interart comparisons suggest that poetry and the visual arts
can be talked about as if “work in one medium […] were
operating in another” (Dayan 3). However, it is often
unclear what it might mean to describe a work of visual art
as “poetic” or a poem as “visual.” This paper explores these
ideas with reference to Paul Hetherington’s and Anita
Fitton’s practice-led research project, Spectral
Resemblances.
The project is investigating some of the ways in which
written poetry and still visual imagery may convey related
meanings. It asks whether meaningful connections between
poetic and visual imagery are at best “spectral” and
elusive. It explores how the juxtapositioning of
complementary works in these different media may allow
resonances to play back and forth in the conceptual spaces
between them.
Keywords:
Imagery, poetry, interart, digital, indeterminate, spectral,
resemblances |
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