Where the Visual Meets the Verbal: Collaboration as Conversation
http://enculturation.gmu.edu/3_2/miltner/index.html
  peer-reviewed

Miltner, Robert
Enculturation
2001

Abstract:

If words follow pictures, as when a poet creates a poem in response to a work of art, then words become a way of seeing. Collaborations between verbal and visual artists produce such insights, regardless of whether the poet responds to the painter or the painter to the poet, since each is speaking in turn in the artistic dialogue which collaboration produces. Yet "Artistic practice and art history have not always looked favorably upon collaborations.