Steiner integrates Anglo-American art history with East Europe semiotics and art theory to clarify the theoretical issues that attend the study of inter-artistic relationships and 'illuminate a broad range of specific works, genres and movements. She discusses the work of Pieter Breughal, Henri Rousseau, Edward Gorey, M C Escher, Rene Magritte, Jackson Pollock, William Carlos Willliams, Gertrude Stein, Lewis Carroll and e e cummings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.