CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Letrônica Journal (PPGL/PUCRS) – v. 19, n. 1 (2026) Thematic Dossier
Art and Literature: Interdisciplinary Researches
It was Luis Camnitzer who said that “[L]atin American conceptualism was nourished as much by poetry and literature as it was by politics and precedents in the visual arts”. Lucy Lippard and John Chandler, in the 1970s, proposed that “in the near future it may be necessary for the writer to be an artist as well as for the artist to be a writer” (2013). More recently, Enrique Vila-Matas stated that “[t]he legacy of Duchamp, Joyce, Beckett and company has found its way into the visual arts (...), the art installation enables the most radical and fascinating dimension of literature” (2014). Works such as those by Nuno Ramos, Veronica Stigger, Cindy Sherman, Marília Garcia, Jorge Carrión, Dora Longo Bahia, Sophie Calle, César Aira, Yuri Firmeza or Mario Bellatin, among so many others who deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence, seem to underline or lend depth to these quotations that point to analogies, frictions or even imbrications between contemporary art and literature. Given the variety and consistency of such works, this dossier invites researchers in Literature, the Arts (and beyond) to submit proposals that, moving beyond rigid comparisons between two aesthetic forms, engage with new projects. We are particularly interested in research that, by transcending thematic and representational analyses, is as undisciplined as the objects themselves. How might we think about artists, writers and poets who seem to demand new or fluid concepts in order to consider their work? And what theoretical, aesthetic or even political effects might this undisciplined perspective bring to literary and artistic studies?
Some productive references in this regard include:
AIRA, Cesar. Sobre a arte contemporânea. Rio de Janeiro: Zazie Edições, 2018.
ANDERSSON, A. Postscript: writing after conceptual art. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto, 2018.
BRIZUELA, N. Depois da fotografia: uma literatura fora de si. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 2014. GARRAMUÑO, Florencia (2014). Frutos estranhos: sobre a inespecificidade na estética contemporânea. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco.
GOLDSMITH, Kenneth. Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age. Nova York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2011.
LADDAGA, R. Espectáculos de realidad. Buenos Aires: Beatriz Viterbo, 2007.
LINO, Patrícia. Imperativa, ensaística, diabólica: infraleituras de poesia expandida brasileira. Belo Horizonte: Relicário, 2024.
MANZI, J. A prosa como meio da arte contemporânea. FronteiraZ. Revista do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Literatura e Crítica Literária, [S. l.], n. 30.
MAROTO, David e ZIELIŃSKA, Joanna (ed). Artist Novels. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014.
PATO, A. Literatura expandida: arquivo e citação na obra de Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. São Paulo: Editora SESC SP, 2013.
PUJOL FILHO, R. Nosso corpo estranho, seguido Charlie Brown não frequenta exposições de arte. Tese – PUCRS, 2019.
PUJOL FILHO, R. Entre contos, bólides e bichos: A arte contemporânea do conto em Veronica Stigger. Letras de Hoje, v 56, n.2, p. 303-315, 2021.
PUJOL FILHO, R. Uma exposição de arte visível em Gonçalo M. Tavares. Revista de Estudos Literários, v.8, p.251 - 273, 2019.
VILLA-FORTE, Leonardo. Escrever sem escrever: literatura e apropriação no século XXI. São Paulo: Relicário, 2019.
Keywords: contemporary art; contemporary literature; interarts studies
Bibliography
CAMNITZER, Luis. Didáctica de la liberación: arte conceptualista latinoamericano. Montevideo: Casa Editorial Hum, 2008.
LIPPARD, Lucy. & CHANDLER, John. A desmaterialização da arte. Arte & ensaios. 25: 151-165.
VILA-MATAS, Enrique. O artista não deve ser original [Entrevista]. Folha de Sp, 25 de ago 2018.
Submission deadline: 30 june 2026.
Guest editors:
Patrícia Lino (Universidade da California, Los Angeles)
Reginaldo da Luz Pujol Filho (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
