The revolution of the visible. Images on the retina

This book about how poets and prose writers thought with picturesque images in the twentieth century, and the artists created, carefully reading in their texts - while both of them and others remained attentive (cinema) spectators. Sometimes the process of mutual peeping was manifested in artistic symbiosis, more often - led to the struggle of related media, in which the word fought with a visible way and vice versa. The new study of Yuri Leving also about how the struggle of opposites becomes the driving mechanism of progress in art, and the revolution - in the meaning of the turn, turn and return - is not so much a way of overthrowing the dominant aesthetics, but by the method of renewing the old, evolution of artistic statement throughout the entire space of visual Cultures.
To consider the specified phenomenon, the author methodologically chooses the most traumatic - revolutionary - nodes at different stages of chronological development in the history of art and in individual biographies of writers and artists interested in it