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Art, Word and Image: 2,000 Years of Visual/Textual Interaction

Art, Word and Image: 2,000 Years of Visual/Textual Interaction

Art, Word and Image: 2,000 Years of Visual/Textual Interaction

Art, Word and Image: 2,000 Years of Visual/Textual Interaction

Overview

What does it mean to say that a painting has been “invaded” by language? Art, Word and Image answers this question by exploring how visual images and writing can work in dialogue in an artwork. Whether the picture frame is encroached upon by doodlings, as with Adolf Wolfli’s seemingly irrational scribbles, or a plea to spirituality is blazoned across a vast canvas, as in the moving images of Colin McCahon, we can be sure that words here have a special meaning, one beyond everyday communication.
 
Art, Word and Image, one of the first books to examine the use of language in art, is constructed around three major chronological essays by renowned scholars John Dixon Hunt, David Lomas, and Michael Corris. Their essays chart the use and significance of words in art—from Classical Greece through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to modern digital media.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781861895202
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date: 06/15/2010
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 410
Product dimensions: 8.60(w) x 11.30(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

John Dixon Hunt is emeritus professor of the history and theory of landscape at the University of Pennsylvania. He is editor of the journal Word and Image and the author of Nature Over Again: The Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay.  Michael Corris is professor of fine art at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of Ad Reinhardt. David Lomas is reader in art history at the University of Manchester. He is the author of The Haunted Self: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity.

Table of Contents

Preface by Michael R. Leaman
Introduction by John Dixon Hunt

I  The Fabric and the Dance: Word and Image to 1900
         John Dixon Hunt

  1  Blake's Illuminated Word
          Joseph Viscomi

II  'New in art, they are already soaked in humanity:' Word and Image 1900-1945
          David Lomas

  2 Paul Klee as 'Poet-Painter' 
          Jeremy Adler

  3 Sense and Nonsense in Kurt Schwitters
          Michael White

III  Word and Image in Art since 1945
           Michael Corris

4  August Walla: Devil/God, Image/Text
           Stephen Barber

5  'The Sound of Painting:' Colin McCahon
           Rex Butler and Laurence Simmons

6  Revelation in Image and Word: The Apocalypse according to Horst Haack
           Barbara Weyandt

7  Raymond Pettibon: Words and Images
           Hamza Walker

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