This course will explore various relationships between text and image in 20th century art
into present art practices.  We will gain a historical perspective by looking at the work of
Modernists and Post Modernists painters and poets to examine how they were in dialogue
with one another.  While painters began to integrate text into their canvases, poets paid
more attention to the visual form of text and the relationship of text to the space of the
page.  We will look at the work of poets such as Mallarmé, and the pioneering work of
painters such as Braque and Picasso.  Ultimately, this course will focus on “textual
impurities”, where the dissolving of rigid limits among creative languages allows them to
intermingle.  This process evolved during the 20th century and continues into our century.
We will pay particular attention to the work of Brazilian artists from the past century into
the present who have combined word with image.

Maria do Carmo de Freitas Veneroso is a professor, scholar, visual artist and printmaker.
Since 2005, she coordinates the Graduate Program of Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the
Federal University of Minas Gerais (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais-UFMG) Brazil,
where a PhD degree in Art was implemented in 2006.  She participates in the Study Group
on Intermediality, in the Faculty of Letters of UFMG, which is an interdisciplinary group
that studies the various aspects of Intermediality. Her main field of study is the
relationship between word and image in Modernism and Post-Modernism, also in relation
to recent Brazilian art.