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Examines the history of the written and printed word and the relationship of words and images from two thousand B.C. to the mid-twentieth century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In the introduction, the author writes that "The constant relation between a hieroglyph and its value as an image explains the deep nature of its tie with art. Every hieroglyph may itself be a work of art, as often occurs in writing on monuments. Reciprocally, every artistic object from ancient Egypt should be read and decoded in its elements as a hieroglyphic whole...Text and image frequently interpenetrate...Some sculptures are truly three-dimensional hieroglyphs, gigantic stone rebuses." The introduction explains hieroglyphic writing. The main section of the book traces the origins and meaning in detail of approximately 600 hieroglyphics used in the classical phase of Egypt's sacred writing. A glossary and a bibliography are also included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Klonsky prints Englsh translations with the same typographic layouts as the original poems: Mallarme's Un Coup de Des and Apollinaire's calligrammes. On page 280, Klonsky reproduces a Gerz visual poem, "The Tree of the Silent Majority;" the original collage is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Klonsky prints English translations with the same typographic layouts as the original poems: Mallarme's Un Coup de Des and Apollinaire's calligrammes. On page 280, Klonsky reproduces a Gerz visual poem, "The Tree of the Silent Majority;" the original collage is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also known as The Papyrus of Ani, the text was written and illustrated c.1250 B.C.E. by unknown artists and scribes. Chiefly concerned with the after life, the book is a guide to the next world and was part of a larger body of religious literature, a product of a polytheistic culture. Word, image and reality are united in Egyptian thought and "text and scene seemingly engage in constant conversation." The scroll was discovered in Egypt in 1888, cut and mounted on board and sent to The British Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also known as The Papyrus of Ani, the text was written and illustrated c.1250 B.C.E. by unknown artists and scribes. Chiefly concerned with the after life, the book is a guide to the next world and was part of a larger body of religious literature, a product of a polytheistic culture. Word, image and reality are united in Egyptian thought and "text and scene seemingly engage in constant conversation." The scroll was discovered in Egypt in 1888, cut and mounted on board and sent to The British Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The hieroglyphics that are reproduced in this article are typical of Hartmann's style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.