Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction.--Nemerov, H. On poetry and painting, with a thought of music.--Argan, G. C. Ideology and iconology.--Taylor, J. C. Two visual excursions.--Abel, E. Redefining the sister arts.--Gilman, E. B. Word and image in Quarles' Emblemes.--Steinberg, L. The line of fate in Michelangelo's painting.--Mast, G. Kracauer's two tendencies and the early history of film narrative.--Metz, C. Trucage and the film.--Arnheim, R. A plea for visual thinking.--Gombrich, E. H. Standards of truth.--Snyder, J. Picturing vision.--Searle, J. R. Las meninas and the paradoxes of pictoral representation.--Morgan, R. P. Musical time/musical space.--Mitchell, W. J. T. Spatial form in literature.