Descoeudres-Sutter:Bild-Poesie

Since the beginning of modernity, there have been artists who paint poems with colors and shapes, creating poetic worlds on the fringes of major art movements. Paul Klee and Joan Miró understood their paintings as poems - Miró made no fundamental distinction between painting and poetry. The renowned art historian and exhibition curator Jean-Christophe Ammann posits: "Art is poetry. Art has always been poetry. And the best artists have always been poets - all others are craftsmen." Surprisingly, the concept of poetry in visual art has never been the subject of investigation until now. With her interdisciplinary dissertation "Image-Poetry: A Philosophical-Art Historical Approach," Brigitte Descoeudres-Sutter ventures into new territory. Beyond historical references - so the thesis goes - image-poetry finds its permanent relevance precisely in the fact that it appears timelessly anachronistic, transcending its own era.