ISBN:
9780813548821
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (367 p.)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Paralleltitel:
Print version Visible Writings : Cultures, Forms, Readings
DDC:
302.23
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Exploring the concept and history of visual and graphic epistemologies, this engrossing collection of essays by artists, curators, and scholars provides keen insights into the many forms of connection between visibility and legibility. With more than 130 color and black-and-white photographs, Visible Writings sheds new light on the visual dimensions of writing as well as writing's interaction with images in ways that affect our experiences of reading and seeing
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mary Shaw; Introduction: Marija Dalbello; Buzz Spector, Encyclopaedia; Contours of Meaning in the Scripts of Ancient Mesoamerica: Western Epistemology and the Phonetic Issue; Arts in Letters: The Aesthetics of Ancient Greek Writing; Letter and Spirit: The Power of the Letter, the Enlivenment of the Word in Medieval Art; Visible and Invisible Letters: Text versus Image in Renaissance England and Europe; Illegibility and Grammaphobia in Paul Et Virginie; Written on the Page; Buzz Spector; Kafka; Face to Face; As If; Sur-face Text-ure
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Un coup de dés and La Prose du Transsibérien: A Study in ContrariesMathematics for "Just Plain Folks": Allegories of Quantitative and Qualitative Information in the Habsburg Sphere; Beneath the Words: Visual Messages in French Fin-de-Siècle Posters; How Do You Pronounce a Pictogram?: On "Visible Writing" in Comics; Inviting Words into the Image: Multiple Meanings in Modern and Contemporary Art; Color Writings: On Three Polychrome Texts; Buzz Spector; Joyc-aean; A Rose Is...; Kafka-esque; Actual Words of Art; The Figurative and the Gestural: Chinese Writing According toMarcel Granet
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Michaux: To Be Read? To Be Seen?Reading the Alhambra; Catastrophe Writings: In the Wake of September 11; ...visible, legible, illegible: around a limit...; Sttmnt; Buzz Spector; Colloquium #1 (Picture Puzzles); Colloquium #2; Colloquium #3; Colloquium #4; Notes on Contributors; Index;
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Buzz Spector, encyclopaedia -- Contours of meaning in the scripts of ancient MesoAmerica: Western epistemology and the phonetic issue / Gordon Brotherston -- Arts in letters: The aesthetics of ancient Greek writing / Alexandra Pappas -- Letter and spirit: The power of the letter, the enlivenment of the word in medieval art / Cynthia Hahn -- Visible and invisible letters: Text versus image in Renaissance England and Europe / Peter Stallybrass -- Illegibility and grammophobia in "Paul et Virginie" / Lorraine Piroux -- Written on the page / Jacques Neefs -- Buzz Spector, Kafka -- Face to face -- As if -- Sur-face text-ure -- Un coup de dés & La Prose du Transsibérien: A study in contraries / Mary Shaw -- Mathematics for "Just Plain Folks": Allegories of quantitative and qualitative information in the Habsburg sphere / Marija Dalbello -- Beneath the words: Visual messages in French Fin-de-Siècle posters / Phillip Dennis Cate -- How do you pronounce a pictogram? On "Visible Writing" in comics / François Cornilliat -- Inviting words into the image: Multiple meanings in modern and contemporary art / Marilyn Symmes, with Christine Giviskos and Julia Tulovsky -- Color writings: On three polychrome texts / Tiphaine Samoyault -- Buzz Spector, Joyc-aean -- A rose is ? -- Kafka-esque -- Actual words of art -- The figurative and the gestural: Chinese writing according to Marcel Granet / Li Jinjia -- Michaux: To be read. To be seen / Claude Mouchard -- Reading the Alhambra / Richard Serrano -- Catastrophe writings: In the wake of September 11 / Béatrice Fraenkel -- -visible, legible, illegible- : Around a limit / Roxane Jubert -- Sttmnt -- Buzz Spector -- Buzz Spector, Colloquium #1 (Picture puzzles) -- Colloquium #2 -- Colloquium #3 -- Colloquium #4.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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