In this interdisciplinary article, we apply the concept of the rhetorical figure of ekphrasis. We will show, in a first instance, that it can be understood as any type of description serving to bring to the reader’s eye something that is distant; however, with the passage of time, this rhetorical figure will be understood in a more complex way, that is, a type of description that targets only and exclusively artistic objects. This new conception will imply that ekphrasis will change from a simple figure that performs a “mimesis of nature” to a rhetorical figure that performs a “mimesis of culture”. Next, we will analyze poems by four poets (Theocritus, Greek, John Keats, English, Alberto de Oliveira, Brazilian and Wallace Stevens, American), each of whom describes a specific sculptural object, either a classical Greek urn, with ornaments or a common, bare jar. We show that there are modifications of the descriptive look, from a classical figuration, through the romantic, and the Parnassian, to the parodic, in the modernist or postmodernist conception, which, using a readymade, in Marcel Duchamp’s sense, deconstructs the relation between the artistic object, the poet and the reader, and thus implies the dismantling of the traditional convention of the rhetorical figure of ekphrasis.
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Ekphrasis, Vase, Convention, Classic, Post-modern
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