ekphrastic
Americanadjective
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“Sovereign Silence, or the City” is a haunting ekphrastic poem based on Vincent Valdez’s ominous painting “The City I.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
His verse about paintings, known as ekphrastic poetry, redefined the genre.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
The other, a series of ekphrastic responses to photos of fractured skulls dug up under a Colorado asylum, presses Rekdal’s descriptive powers to pure insight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2016
The narrator discusses his affection for ekphrastic literature, in which a work of art is described in language.
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2016
Poor, overworked Icarus is trooped out, though with none of the impact of his unremarked plunge in WH Auden's ekphrastic poem, "Musée des Beaux Arts".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2012
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