Visible Writings Cultures, Forms, Readings |
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| Editor:
| Dalbello, Marija
Shaw, Mary |
| Introduction by:
| Dalbello, Marija
Shaw, Mary |
| Contribution by:
| Brotherston, James Gordon
Cate, Phillip Dennis
Cornilliat, Francois
Fraenkel, Beatrice
Hahn, Cynthia
Jubert, Roxane
li, Jinjia
Mouchard, Claude
Neefs, Jacques
Pappas, Alexandra
Piroux, Lorraine
Samoyault, Tiphaine
Serrano, Richard
Spector, Buzz
Stallybrass, Peter
Symmes, Marilyn |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8135-4882-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $120.00 |
Book Description:
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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....
More Description 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.
Multicultural in character and historical in range, essays discuss pre-Colombian Mesoamerican scripts, inscriptions on ancient Greek vases, medieval illuminations, Renaissance prints, Enlightenment concepts of the legible, and the Western "reading" of Chinese ideograms. A rich array of modern forms, including comics, poster art, typographic signs, scribblings in writers' manuscripts, anthropomorphic statistical pictograms, the street writings of 9/11, intersections between poetry and painting, the use of color in literary texts, and the use of writing in visual art are also addressed.
Visible Writings reaches outside the traditional venues of literature and art history into topics that consider design, history of writing, philosophy of language, and the emerging area of visual studies. Marija Dalbello, Mary Shaw, and the other contributors offer both scholars and those with a more casual interest in literature and art the opportunity, simply stated, to see the writing on the wall.