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Poetry into painting: Mallarmé, Picasso, and punning

Shingler, Katherine

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Katherine Shingler



Abstract

This article gives a critical assessment of the relationship between the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the Cubist painting and collage of Pablo Picasso. Taking in a range of critical sources that have insisted on Picasso’s ‘mallarmisme’, the article sets out to shift scholarly debate away from its focus on Picasso’s punning reference to Un coup de dés in a 1912 collage, and its suggestion of a dialogue between poet and painter around high art and its relationship to popular, commercial forms of production. It proposes that we instead focus our attention on the punning structures shared by Mallarmé and Picasso’s work more generally – structures which give rise to a sense of simultaneity, or overlaps of meaning, and which ultimately suggest that in engaging with Mallarmé’s poetry Picasso was self-consciously reflecting on the notion of painting as a kind of language, with its own syntax.

Citation

Shingler, K. (2013). Poetry into painting: Mallarmé, Picasso, and punning. French Cultural Studies, 24(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155813501118

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 30, 2012
Publication Date Nov 1, 2013
Deposit Date Jun 10, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal French Cultural Studies
Print ISSN 0957-1558
Electronic ISSN 1740-2352
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 24
Issue 4
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155813501118
Keywords Cubism, linguistic analogy, Stéphane Mallarmé, Pablo Picasso, pictorial syntax, simultaneity, text−image relationships
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/718218
Publisher URL http://frc.sagepub.com/content/24/4/346.abstract

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