The relationship between writers and artists has long been a collaborative one. Plato used the word ekphrasis to describe what happens when a writer writes creatively, as opposed to critically, about art. Gertrude Stein claimed that her innovative writing style was inspired by the paintings of Cézanne - and then went on to tell Hemingway to study Cézanne if he wanted to learn to write.
In Looking Together, a dozen writers working in a range of styles and forms respond to works of art held in the permanent collection of Seattle's Frye Art Museum or exhibited there. Romantic and ironic, meticulously researched and fanciful, these poems, stories, monologues, and tales are invitations to any curious reader or lover of art to look again at what we see.
Featuring the writers and artists:
Ryan Boudinot / Tim Eitel
Rebecca Brown / Robyn O'Neil
Christine Deavel / Dario Robleto
Adrianne Harun / Henry Darger
Lesley Hazelton / Gabriel von Max
Richard Hugo / John Henry Twachtman
Stacey Levine / Patricia Piccinini
Frances McCue / Franz von Stuck
Melinda Mueller / Sigrid Sandstrom
Jack Nisbet / Pieter van Veen
Peter Pereira / Willie Cole
Jonathan Raban / Albert Bierstadt
