The question of colour, in a variety of disciplines and media, has provoked debate from Aristotle to Goethe, and from Baudelaire to Derek Jarman. This new edition of Susan Harrow's award-winning study of modern French poetry and art writing offers a bold approach to studying the relationship between text and image. Exploring key questions such as how modern writers write colour, and to what extent critical thought on colour in visual media can illuminate the textual life of colour, Susan Harrow argues for the integral part that colour plays in the exploration of ethics, ekphrasis, objects, bodies, landscape and interiority in painting and poetry. Beyond its primary area of investigation in modern poetry and art writing in French, this richly colour-illustrated study has significant interdisciplinary implications conceptual, methodological and practical-for the exploration of visuality in interdisciplinary humanities research, from comparative literature studies to material and visual culture studies.
