Visual Arts' Manifestation in Poetry “Interdisciplinarity and Reshaping Approaches and Techniques in Wallace Stevens’s Visual Poetry”

Interdisciplinarity crosses boundaries of thinking, and reflects a creative process of an artist’s thinking. Interdisciplinarity also reshapes a work of art through analyzing, examining and understanding it from different perspectives. The concept of interdisciplinarity contains three basic principles. The first is the relationship between literature and other different fields such as cultural studies, history, psychology, sociology, etc. The second is the one between a literary text and other artistic fields such as visual arts. The third is the application of certain theories and methodologies on a work of art. Interdisciplinarity produces new forms of aesthetics, disciplines, comparisons, perspectives and appreciation. An interdisciplinary work of art expresses a unity of knowledge, and reshapes art.
The presentation focuses on the relationship between Stevens’ poetry and the different fields of art such as painting and film. Stevens treads many visual fields. His relationship with the arts is developed through his connection with certain artistic movements. Stevens’ poems have features from different schools like those of imagism, experimentalism and cubism.
Stevens sheds light on other kinds of visual and aural fields. He presents the relationship between literature and films- which is difficult to be arranged. The first started since four thousand years while the second since one hundred and fifteen years. Written poems express sounds and ideas, while films introduce characters, images and lights. The presentation shows how turning poetry into painting and film is an interdisciplinary art, as well as mentally challenging and creative. Interdisciplinarity reshapes the approach to Wallace Stevens’ visual poetry.