OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Word & Image is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Allusion and elusion: writing on the Cloisters Cross	5
“When I’m a Human Being”: race, bodies, and power in Disney’s adaptations of “The Frog King or Iron Henry”	2
Flavius Josephus and the frieze of the Spoils from the Temple in Jerusalem on the Arch of Titus	1
Art, illusion, and recycled images in Johannes Pauli’s anecdotes on painters	1
The lighthouse as tree: Vanessa Bell’s cover for To the Lighthouse and Virginia Woolf’s 1902 edition of Wordsworth	1
Adam’s lament and Eve’s blame: performing gender on the page	1
Where there’s everything: Pistoletto, the Gruppo d’Arte “l’Arlecchino,” and localist internationalism in Presenze	1
Book to screen and back again—Dany Laferrière and (re)writing “Vers le sud”	1
Fischer von Erlach and the Habsburg imperial historians	0
Indigenous image theory	0
From Venus de Milo to Nike ads: the role of art references in the production of COVID-19 humour in Central and Eastern Europe	0
Biography, portraiture, and the Victorian heroics of blindness: the case of Henry Fawcett, MP	0
Ikebukuro Montparnasse: an avant-garde community in the era of Taishō democracy	0
Equiano’s Ice, Akomfrah’s Sea	0
Coloring the mind: fantasy, imagination, and stereotype in early twentieth-century pulp fiction illustration	0
Reading the rebus: the reception of seventeenth-century German rebus broadsheets	0
“Adaptation Studies”: steps towards a necessary re-foundation	0
Writing in gold: on the aesthetics and ideology of Carolingian chrysography	0
Lydgate and the Lanterne: discourse, heresy and the ethics of architecture in early fifteenth-century England	0
Did Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa cross a seventeenth-century line of decorum?	0
Woman in a turban: Domenichino’s Sibyl, Staël’s Corinne, and the image of female genius	0
Framing life in death: metapictures from Danish printed funeral sermons	0
The whole mad thing: chronicling the journey to land art	0
Invoking, seeing, and touching God during Byzantine Iconoclasm	0
A speaking silence: “universal language” and multilingualism in The Shape of Water	0

Botanical symbolism in the Hypnerotomachia: botanical signifiers of a humanist handling of interior transformation	0
Japan’s Van Gogh? Analogy and revision in the case of Shikō Munakata	0
At home with the artist: exploring the Louise Bourgeois Archive	0
Competing ‘iconographies’: Hagia Sophia, ideology, and the construction of a cultural icon then and now	0
‘Both a poet and a painter’: typography and textual images in Christopher Logue’s War Music	0
The birth of Masaniello: poverty, society, and the visual in Naples and beyond	0
The renaissance of a twelfth-century papal manuscript fragment in Medici Florence: a new reading of Fra Angelico’s David	0
Canonical artworks and humorous memes: sophisticated humour in Corona discourse	0
‘This Lotus Spell is Intenser’: sources and selections in Emma Stebbins’s The Lotus-Eater	0
‘Pinge e punge’: the metaphorical import of St Irene tending to St Sebastian in early modern gallery paintings	0
‘The word’s challenging opposite’: the visual language of Lorcan Walshe’s The Artefacts Project and Museum Pieces	0
Chinese Millets: native soil, the party–state, and art in contemporary China	0
A study of art crossing its borders: Walter Pater’s Anders-streben and Charles Demuth’s Aucassin and Nicolette and A Prince	0
Brutal analogies: multiplying Le Corbusiers across global architecture	0
‘The Constantin Guys of the atomic era’: on the poetic reception of Robert Rauschenberg by Alain Jouffroy and Surrealism	0
Médium du portrait, portrait du médium: Les spécificités du pastel dans les discours sur l’art au XVIII^e siècle	0
Suspending ekphrasis: Christopher Marlowe’s ‘Brazen World’ in Part 2 of Tamburlaine the Great and its influence	0
‘An Hour before the Day’: the dismembered Book of Hours in Elizabeth Siddal’s Clerk Saunders	0
Birth, death, and persuasive analogies: the Nativity at Eğri Taş Kilisesi, Cappadocia	0
‘If God asks’: hidden emotions and folk beliefs in the ‘mythical meme’ of the pandemic	0
Image/text/cliché/insight: analogical practices in the global art world	0
Illuminating the sunbeam through glass motif	0
Performing palettes: Doni, Anguissola, and the origins of poeitic self-portraiture	0
On the (un)seeable in Wassily Kandinsky’s Klänge	0
Capturing images: Baudelaire’s account of Meryon’s etchings	0
Interview with Maggie Wright, Louise Bourgeois Archive, The Easton Foundation	0
Adapting Kafka	0
Encountering alterity: linguistic opacity in modern and contemporary art	0
The terminus in Late Byzantine literature and aesthetics	0
‘Very curious and romantick Views’: Captain Cook’s Antarctic explorations and aesthetic education	0
The text inside us: text on screen and the intertexual self in Bakemonogatari	0
Tomb gardens of the doctor Patron: nature, family, and commemoration in ancient Roman painting and poetry	0
Catherine of Siena’s chest stigma: ambiguities between the textual and visual traditions	0
Mark Twain’s undictionarial Italian: the politics and visual humor of mistranslating newspaper scraps, c.1900	0
Introduction: Iconographiae. Writing images in the medieval world	0
Speaking sign or acting device? Reading and using the Christogram in Byzantium	0
Shouldering the world in a different way: early modern images of people wearing maps	0
Uroscopy diagrams, judgment, and the perception of color in late medieval England	0
Chronicles of light and sound: the film-poems of Alfonsina Storni	0
Socio-metaphysical void: Yves Klein’s textual and imagistic performance of Théȃtre du vide	0
‘The chicken or the egg?’ Exploring the dynamics of an ekphrastic cycle	0
Art in digital humour: interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches—introduction to the special issue	0
Rendering visible through language: writing drawings and the literary portrait in Anne Carson’s Men in the Off Hours	0
Production and design of early illustrated herbals	0
Against illustration: towards a new field of inquiry in illustration studies	0
The edition of Louise Bourgeois and Robert Goldwater’s letters: work in progress	0
Speaking Pebble: a word–image from Huarochirí, Peru, 1608	0
Les journaux de Louise Bourgeois: perspectives nouvelles sur le féminisme et l’érotisme	0
Concrete poetry, concrete book: on the book collaborations of Eugen Gomringer and Günther Uecker	0
The theatrics of Arabic script: word and/as image in the diagrams of the Kitāb al-diryāq (BnF arabe 2964)	0

Photographs of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Geoffrey Hill’s The Triumph of Love	0
A New Sun Emerges: the Aztec New Fire Ceremony in word and image	0
Lupin (2021) in the shadow of Maurice Leblanc: the adaptation that wasn’t	0
Heidegger and van Gogh’s Shoes	0
Nanni Balestrini, collage, and the aesthetics of operaismo	0
Parodying girlhood trauma in Louise Bourgeois’s writings	0
A pro-American perspective on the American Revolution: Johann Heinrich Ramberg’s (1763–1840) adaptations of illustrations by Daniel Chodowiecki	0
Cartoons in memes: recycling popular art forms as a humorous response to the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Introduction to transmedia adaptations of literary “classics” in 20th–21st-century artistic expression	0
Writing images as an act of interpreting: notes on Erwin Panofsky’s studies on medieval subjects and the problem of language in and of art history	0
Put yourself in his shoes: embodying the archive in Joe Sacco’s The Fixer	0
Writing in the sky: the late antique astronomical illustrations of MS Harley 647	0
How to write about images from the medieval world: André Grabar and his Byzantium—the case of L’Empereur dans l’art byzantin (1936)	0
“Sculptress Interprets Land’s Spirit”: Elizabeth Wyn Wood, the Group of Seven, and analogy as equivalence	0
Poetic matters: Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (1441–1524), materiality, and the visual arts	0
Intermedia poetics in and out of Detroit’s Alternative Press	0
Poems, portraits, and paper: Raphael’s sonnets and the fabric of friendship	0
There is a poet underneath here: Louise Bourgeois’s Unknown Masterpiece¹	0
Narrative to icon: the inscriptive origins of Christ Ecce Homo	0
Operative ekphrasis: the collapse of the text/image distinction in multimodal AI	0
Plas Newydd’s poetics of exchange: portraiture, poetry, and the intermediality of eighteenth-century gift culture	0
Les archives de Louise Bourgeois: ‘J’ai besoin de mes souvenirs. C’est ma documentation. Je veille sur eux’	0
Turning lesser-known paintings into COVID-19 memes as a means of humorous criticism	0