Art in Literature

 

Breughel: The Fall of Icarus

 

Texts:

Edgar Allan Poe, "The Oval Portrait" 1845

John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" 1884

W.H. Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts" 1940

Walker Evans:  Hale County Alabama 1936

Walker Evans: Maggie Louise

 

James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,  "Inductions First" pp329-337 and Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson, And Their Children after Them, (1989) "Maggie Louise"

See also: The Most Famous Story We Never Told (2005) Fortune Magazine 2005

Seamus Heaney, The Grauballe Man 1975

The Grauballe Man , Moesgaard Aarhus

Nick Hornby, "Nipple Jesus"

Film: Peter Webber (dir.), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2004

Review of the film by Philip French, The Observer

 

Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665-1666)      Photo from the film Girl with a Pearl Earring (2004)