Open AccessThe Pedagogic Force of Ekphrastic Poetics
Author(s) -
Kelly Young,
Mahshid Farhoudi-Di Marco
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
language and literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1496-0974
DOI - 10.20360/g2d880
Subject(s) - poetics , storytelling , poetry , painting , art , representation (politics) , literature , curriculum , the arts , visual arts , aesthetics , sociology , narrative , pedagogy , law , political science , politics
This article is an exemplar of arts-based educational research that uses ekphrastic poetics as a vehicle for critically storytelling. Ekphrastic poetics is an art form dating back to Classical Greece that involves an act of poetic response to a visual form. Ekphrastic poetics is conceptualized as a curriculum and aesthetic text as poet Kelly Young responds to visual artist Mahshid Farhoudi-Di Marco’s series of paintings through interpretive practices. Interpretive practices involve building relationships with the visual forms through among other things, conditioned writing activities.