Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index
Introduction -- Interchange and rivalry between the arts -- Hierarchies of the senses in Symbolist criticism : birds of a feather? Gauguin's ambivalent relationship with literary symbolism -- A creative conspiracy : Gauguin's Noa Noa : a Parisian in Tahiti -- Art in theory : word and image in early Cubist criticism -- Mallarme, Picasso, and the aesthetic of the newspaper : poetic gold or paper money? -- Gide's Les faux-monnayeurs : from alchemy to forgery -- Coda. Visual and verbal simultaneity in the early twentieth century