Looking Together

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 Cezanne - and then went on to tell Hemingway to study Cezanne 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. This title features the following 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; and, Albert Bierstadt.