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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Simon MorleyPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 21.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 27.60cm Weight: 1.085kg ISBN: 9780520241534ISBN 10: 0520241533 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 06 June 2005 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsIntroduction: Words and Pictures Grand Bazar Universal: Impressionist Words Merahi metua no Teha'amana:Symbolist Words Au Bon Marche: Cubist Words Parole-in-Liberta: Futurist Words L.H.O.O.Q Dada Words Futura: Constructivist Words L'Alphabet des reves: Surrealist Words 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 Epiloque: Hypertext and Future Words Notes Select Bibliography List of IllustrationsReviews"""An intriguing survey of word-imbued artworks of the modern period, Writing on the wall will surely be a touchstone for readings on the relationship between language and art across time. While filling a gap in the current scholarship on text in art, Morley has crafted in clear, accessible prose, a study that is easily extrapolated beyond modernism, Indeed beyond the fine arts. It is an adventuresome work, and extremely stimulating.""" An intriguing survey of word-imbued artworks of the modern period, Writing on the wall will surely be a touchstone for readings on the relationship between language and art across time. While filling a gap in the current scholarship on text in art, Morley has crafted in clear, accessible prose, a study that is easily extrapolated beyond modernism, Indeed beyond the fine arts. It is an adventuresome work, and extremely stimulating. Author InformationSimon 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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