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- Title
Antonella Anedda's La vita dei dettagli: Icon-textuality as a Relational Practice.
- Authors
MORRA, ELOISA
- Abstract
Visual studies have legitimized the concept of icon-text, a practice based on the principle of insubordination of the text-image relationship. This article investigates the dynamics of Antonella Anedda's The Life of Details (2009), of one of the best icon-textual examples in contemporary Italian literature. Her rejection of the traditionally subordinate role of the visual is combined with a challenge to the methods of iconology--the reader-viewers are therefore not invited to embrace the traditional practice of "attribution"of a painting but rather to focus on the relation between images and their own reality. By shifting from an author-oriented to a reader-oriented perspective, Anedda engages us in a collective exploration of loss and mourning.
- Subjects
ANEDDA, Antonella; ITALIAN poets; ITALIAN poetry; ITALIAN literature; RELATIONAL art
- Publication
Italica, 2022, Vol 99, Issue 4, p438
- ISSN
0021-3020
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5406/23256672.99.4.03