LEADER 03216cam a2200433 a 4500001 214575 005 20240621213000.0 008 110107t20112011enk b 001 0 eng 010 2010019926 020 9781845194505 |qacid-free paper 020 1845194500 |qacid-free paper 035 (OCoLC)ocn630453675 035 214575 042 pcc 049 LHMA 041 1 eng |hheb 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDX |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dLHM 050 00 PJ5054.R49 |bZ56 2011 100 1 Bram, Shachar. 245 14 The ambassadors of death : |bthe sister arts, western canon and the silent lines of a Hebrew survivor / |cShahar Bram ; translated by Batya Stein ; poems co-translated by Lisa Katz and Shahar Bram. 264 1 Brighton ;Portland : |bSussex Academic Press, |c[2011] 264 4 |c©2011 300 viii, 197 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-192) and index. 505 0 Introduction: Achilles' shield: Ekphrasis, ut pictura poesis, and Tuvia Rübner -- The fall: Peter Breughel's The fall of Icarus, Marc Chagall's The fall of Icarus, and Tuvia Rübner's The fall. Poetry and painting: basic questions of comparison; the museum of words: Rübner's book -- The ambassadors of death: Hans Holbein's The ambassadors and Tuvia Rübner's The ambassadors. The portrait: The ambassador of death, a guide to the silent museum of words -- Horse and rider: Simone Martini's Guidoriccio da fogliano and Tuvia Rübner's Horse and rider. The paradoxical animation of death in poetry. Rübner's voyage towards death. The photograph in Rübner's world -- The silence of words: Tuvia Rübner's two zen paintings. Rübner's use of haiku and zen. The image in poetry. Imagism. Poetics of space -- The structure of narrative: Casper David Friedrich's Chalk cliffs on Rueben and Tuvia Rübner's Chalk cliffs on Rügen. Renaissance vs. romanticism. Narrative poetics in painting and poetry -- The chaos of colors and the order of words: Joseph Mallord William Turner's Peace - burial at sea and Tuvia Rübner's The ship. The language of paintings. Painting as text. The inseparable world of word and image -- The fallen angel and the survivor's burning eye: Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn's Descent from the cross and Tuvia Rübner's Descent from the cross. Word and image in the religious world. The survivor and the story of redemption. Past, memory and the survivor as a living dead. Walter Benjamin. The end of the journey is in the beginning: Rübner, the heavenly beauty of the dead image, and the fallen angel -- Epilogue: ekphrasis, mimesis, and the difference between word and image. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Ruebner, Tuvia, |d1924-2019 |xKnowledge and learning |xArt. 650 0 Ekphrasis. 650 0 Painting in literature. 650 0 Death in literature. 650 0 Death in art. 650 0 Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics) 650 0 Art and literature. 700 1 Stein, Batya. 700 1 Katz, Lisa. 852 0 |bstacks |hPJ5054.R49 |iZ56 2011