Ekphrasis
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ekphrasis-207-9313047
title:
Ekphrasis
text:
The word ekphrasis, or ecphrasis, comes from the Greek for the written description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical or literary exercise, often used in the adjectival form ekphrastic. It is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined. Thus, "an ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art." In ancient times, it might refer more broadly to a description of any thing, person, or experience. The word com
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Describing visual art in words
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekphrasis
date created:
2003-11-24T19:41:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T03:21:58Z
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