Visible writings : cultures, forms, readings / edited by Marija Dalbello and Mary Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalbello, Marija, Author.

Contributor:

Dalbello, Marija.

Shaw, Mary Lewis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual communication.

Signs and symbols.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-86450-9

0-8135-5455-1

OCLC:

778339949