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Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art / Morley, Simon ; Adorno T ; Alechinsky P ; Aragon L ; Arakawa ; Art & Language ; Artaud A ; Baldessari J ; Ball H ; Banner F ; Barthes R ; Basquiat JM ; Baumgarten L ; Bayer H ; Beckett S ; Ben ; Bense M ; Beuys J ; Bing X ; Boetti A ; VanDoesburg T ; Bouabre FB ; Brecht G ; Breton A ; Broodthaers M ; Burgin V ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Apollinaire G ; Cangiullo F ; Chopin H ; Mallarme S ; Darboven H ; Debord G ; Degottex J ; Desnos R ; Dine J ; Duchamp M ; Dufrene F ; Ernst M ; Fahlstrom O ; Finlay IH ; Fuller B ; Fulton H ; Gins M ; Ginsberg A ; Gomringer E ; Grosz G ; Hains R ; Hamilton R ; Hausmann R ; Heartfeld J ; Heidegger M ; Higgins D ; Hoch H ; Holzer J ; Isou I ; Jarry A ; Johns J ; Joyce J ; Kabakov I ; Kaprow A ; Kawara O ; Khlebnikov V ; Klucis G ; Kosuth J ; Kruger B ; Kuitca G ; Leger F ; Ligon G ; LeWitt S ; Lissitzky E ; Maciunas G ; McLuhan M ; Malevich K ; Manzoni P ; Marinetti FT ; Mayakovsky V ; Schwitters K ; Nannucci M ; Nauman B ; Neshat S ; Ono Y ; Phillips T ; Reinhardt A ; Rodchenko A ; Rollins T ; Roth D ; Ruscha E ; Salomon C ; Severini G ; Stein G ; Twombly C ; Tzara T ; Villegle J ; Vostell W ; Warhol A ; Weiner L ; Williams E ; Wittgenstein L ; Wolfli A ; Wool C ; Wyndam-Lewis ; Young L ; Zayas M., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42413-44423

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Scope and Contents

This book is the first sustained consideration of the manifold infiltrations of the written word into the visual arts from the nineteenth century to the present day.Publisher: "From the cut-up Cubist collages of Picasso to the monumental filmic narratives of Fiona Banner, and from the schoolboy subversion of Magritte to the demotic scrawl of Cy Twombly, the use of words is one of the defining features of modern art. Indeed, with many contemporary works, only those without text are remarkable. Exploring the strange, unsettling, and often humorous results when words escape their traditional confines and inhabit artworks, this book is the first sustained consideration of the manifold infiltrations of the written word into the visual arts from the nineteenth century to the present day. Simon Morley traces the growing bond between word and image, explaining how artists have harnessed the resulting tension to form identities, challenge authority, and make sense of a world in constant change. Writing on the Wall discusses familiar movements from the Impressionists to the present day, focusing on many works of modern art such as Dada nonsense words, Surrealist painting-poems, Constructivist typographies, oriental calligraphy, postwar gestural painting, and much more. As he considers these works, Morley reveals how artists have responded to an environment increasingly saturated with words, and also asks how the mass media have adopted and adapted artistic devices in propaganda, typography, and advertising. The book ends with a look at current developments in the world of hypertext, where word and image have at last found an essential unity. / Simon Morley is an artist, curator and lecturer. After studying at Oxford University he lived and trained as an artist in Italy, the United States, and finally at Goldsmiths College, London. He teaches at the Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, and has exhibited his work internationally." - Contents: Introduction: Words and Pictures; Grand Bazar Universel: Impressionist Words; Merahi Metua No Tehamana: Symbolist Words; KUB: Cubist Words; Parole-in-libertà: Futurist Words; L.H.O.O.Q.: Dada Words; Futura : Constructivist Words; L'alphabet des reves: Surrealist Words; Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge: Words and Power; Writing Degree Zero: Post-War Words; Intermedia: Neo-Dada Words; Coca-Cola: Pop Words; Art as Idea as Idea: Conceptual Words I; A Heap of Language: Conceptual Words II; The Prison-House Of Language : Postmodern Words; Creolization: Millennial Words; Epilogue: Hypertexts and Future Words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 2003

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Extent

0 See container summary (1 hard cover book (224 pages) in dust jacket) ; 28.3 x 22.4 x 3 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

ref shelf visual/verbal

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Berkeley, California : University of California Press. Nationality of creator: British. General: Number of duplicates: 2. General: Added by: RUTH; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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