Art, Word and Image

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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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Introduction
• I The Fabric and the Dance: Word and Image to 1900
• 1 Blake's Illuminated Word
• II 'New in art, they are already soaked in humanity:' Word and Image 1900-1945
• 2 Paul Klee as 'Poet-Painter'
• 3 Sense and Nonsense in Kurt Schwitters
• III Word and Image in Art since 1945
• 4 August Walla: Devil/God, Image/Text
• 5 'The Sound of Painting:' Colin McCahon
• 6 Revelation in Image and Word: The Apocalypse according to Horst Haack
• 7 Raymond Pettibon: Words and Images
• References
• Contributors
• Select Bibliogrpahy
• Photo Acknowledgments
• Index