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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
Preface by Michael R. Leaman
Introduction by John Dixon Hunt
I The Fabric and the Dance: Word and Image to 1900
John Dixon Hunt
1 Blake’s Illuminated Word
Joseph Viscomi
II ’New in art, they are already soaked in humanity:’ Word and Image 1900-1945
David Lomas
2 Paul Klee as ’Poet-Painter’
Jeremy Adler
3 Sense and Nonsense in Kurt Schwitters
Michael White
III Word and Image in Art since 1945
Michael Corris
4 August Walla: Devil/God, Image/Text
Stephen Barber
5 ’The Sound of Painting:’ Colin McCahon
Rex Butler and Laurence Simmons
6 Revelation in Image and Word: The Apocalypse according to Horst Haack
Barbara Weyandt
7 Raymond Pettibon: Words and Images
Hamza Walker
References
Contributors
Select Bibliogrpahy
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
Introduction by John Dixon Hunt
I The Fabric and the Dance: Word and Image to 1900
John Dixon Hunt
1 Blake’s Illuminated Word
Joseph Viscomi
II ’New in art, they are already soaked in humanity:’ Word and Image 1900-1945
David Lomas
2 Paul Klee as ’Poet-Painter’
Jeremy Adler
3 Sense and Nonsense in Kurt Schwitters
Michael White
III Word and Image in Art since 1945
Michael Corris
4 August Walla: Devil/God, Image/Text
Stephen Barber
5 ’The Sound of Painting:’ Colin McCahon
Rex Butler and Laurence Simmons
6 Revelation in Image and Word: The Apocalypse according to Horst Haack
Barbara Weyandt
7 Raymond Pettibon: Words and Images
Hamza Walker
References
Contributors
Select Bibliogrpahy
Photo Acknowledgements
Index