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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Allusion and elusion: writing on the Cloisters Cross	15
“When I’m a Human Being”: race, bodies, and power in Disney’s adaptations of “The Frog King or Iron Henry”	2
Book to screen and back again—Dany Laferrière and (re)writing “Vers le sud”	2
Narrative to icon: the inscriptive origins of Christ Ecce Homo	1
‘Creatures of their Times’: Time-Life Books and the informational aesthetic	1
The lighthouse as tree: Vanessa Bell’s cover for To the Lighthouse and Virginia Woolf’s 1902 edition of Wordsworth	1
Woman in a turban: Domenichino’s Sibyl, Staël’s Corinne, and the image of female genius	1
Brassaï’s Seville in magazines and books: constellated photographs, print networks, and the making of (a) photographic history	1
Adam’s lament and Eve’s blame: performing gender on the page	1
Illuminating the sunbeam through glass motif	1
Introduction to transmedia adaptations of literary “classics” in 20th–21st-century artistic expression	1
A pro-American perspective on the American Revolution: Johann Heinrich Ramberg’s (1763–1840) adaptations of illustrations by Daniel Chodowiecki	1
Art, illusion, and recycled images in Johannes Pauli’s anecdotes on painters	1
Heidegger and van Gogh’s Shoes	1
Power and precarity: gold as light in English Benedictine manuscripts of the tenth century	0
Capturing images: Baudelaire’s account of Meryon’s etchings	0
Competing ‘iconographies’: Hagia Sophia, ideology, and the construction of a cultural icon then and now	0
Encountering alterity: linguistic opacity in modern and contemporary art	0
‘Very curious and romantick Views’: Captain Cook’s Antarctic explorations and aesthetic education	0
Did Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa cross a seventeenth-century line of decorum?	0
Poetic matters: Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (1441–1524), materiality, and the visual arts	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
Shouldering the world in a different way: early modern images of people wearing maps	0
Indigenous image theory	0
Put yourself in his shoes: embodying the archive in Joe Sacco’s The Fixer	0

Reading the rebus: the reception of seventeenth-century German rebus broadsheets	0
“Sculptress Interprets Land’s Spirit”: Elizabeth Wyn Wood, the Group of Seven, and analogy as equivalence	0
Speaking Pebble: a word–image from Huarochirí, Peru, 1608	0
Socio-metaphysical void: Yves Klein’s textual and imagistic performance of Théȃtre du vide	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
Mediated meaning of a magnificent rock: using Wu Bin’s words to understand his painting Ten Views of a Lingbi Rock	0
The renaissance of a twelfth-century papal manuscript fragment in Medici Florence: a new reading of Fra Angelico’s David	0
Ikebukuro Montparnasse: an avant-garde community in the era of Taishō democracy	0
Photo book constellations: an introduction	0
Concrete poetry, concrete book: on the book collaborations of Eugen Gomringer and Günther Uecker	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
The birth of Masaniello: poverty, society, and the visual in Naples and beyond	0
Fischer von Erlach and the Habsburg imperial historians	0
Operative ekphrasis: the collapse of the text/image distinction in multimodal AI	0
Cartoons in memes: recycling popular art forms as a humorous response to the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Framing life in death: metapictures from Danish printed funeral sermons	0
“Ghetto chaos”: self-representation and marginality in 1960s photobooks	0
Writing in the sky: the late antique astronomical illustrations of MS Harley 647	0
Biography, portraiture, and the Victorian heroics of blindness: the case of Henry Fawcett, MP	0
‘Both a poet and a painter’: typography and textual images in Christopher Logue’s War Music	0
Turning lesser-known paintings into COVID-19 memes as a means of humorous criticism	0
Adapting Kafka	0
Image/text/cliché/insight: analogical practices in the global art world	0
Botanical symbolism in the Hypnerotomachia: botanical signifiers of a humanist handling of interior transformation	0
A study of art crossing its borders: Walter Pater’s Anders-streben and Charles Demuth’s Aucassin and Nicolette and A Prince	0
The terminus in Late Byzantine literature and aesthetics	0
“Adaptation Studies”: steps towards a necessary re-foundation	0
The theatrics of Arabic script: word and/as image in the diagrams of the Kitāb al-diryāq (BnF arabe 2964)	0
Poems, portraits, and paper: Raphael’s sonnets and the fabric of friendship	0
Chinese Millets: native soil, the party–state, and art in contemporary China	0
Two destinies intertwined: George Rodger before and after Leni Riefenstahl	0
The aesthetic of water: Proust, Whistler, and the art of East Asia	0
Iconographic microcosmos: Chris Marker, Petite Planète , and the paperback photobooks of Éditions du Seuil	0
Coloring the mind: fantasy, imagination, and stereotype in early twentieth-century pulp fiction illustration	0
Birth, death, and persuasive analogies: the Nativity at Eğri Taş Kilisesi, Cappadocia	0
Performing palettes: Doni, Anguissola, and the origins of poeitic self-portraiture	0
Uroscopy diagrams, judgment, and the perception of color in late medieval England	0
James Joyce’s cubist portrait of the artist	0
Canonical artworks and humorous memes: sophisticated humour in Corona discourse	0
The whole mad thing: chronicling the journey to land art	0
Invoking, seeing, and touching God during Byzantine Iconoclasm	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
Japan’s Van Gogh? Analogy and revision in the case of Shikō Munakata	0
Writing in gold: on the aesthetics and ideology of Carolingian chrysography	0
Speaking sign or acting device? Reading and using the Christogram in Byzantium	0
Brutal analogies: multiplying Le Corbusiers across global architecture	0
Introduction: Iconographiae. Writing images in the medieval world	0
Lupin (2021) in the shadow of Maurice Leblanc: the adaptation that wasn’t	0
Tomb gardens of the doctor Patron: nature, family, and commemoration in ancient Roman painting and poetry	0

‘The Constantin Guys of the atomic era’: on the poetic reception of Robert Rauschenberg by Alain Jouffroy and Surrealism	0
Ruth Gruber’s Destination Palestine : legitimizing Israel through a photobook	0
Against illustration: towards a new field of inquiry in illustration studies	0
‘Pinge e punge’: the metaphorical import of St Irene tending to St Sebastian in early modern gallery paintings	0
Equiano’s Ice, Akomfrah’s Sea	0
‘If God asks’: hidden emotions and folk beliefs in the ‘mythical meme’ of the pandemic	0
Plas Newydd’s poetics of exchange: portraiture, poetry, and the intermediality of eighteenth-century gift culture	0
Suspending ekphrasis: Christopher Marlowe’s ‘Brazen World’ in Part 2 of Tamburlaine the Great and its influence	0
‘The word’s challenging opposite’: the visual language of Lorcan Walshe’s The Artefacts Project and Museum Pieces	0
A speaking silence: “universal language” and multilingualism in The Shape of Water	0
‘This Lotus Spell is Intenser’: sources and selections in Emma Stebbins’s The Lotus-Eater	0
Nanni Balestrini, collage, and the aesthetics of operaismo	0