Research Catalog

Title

Visible writings : cultures, forms, readings / edited by Marija Dalbello and Mary Shaw.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dalbello, Marija
• Shaw, Mary Lewis

Description

x, 356 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Subjects

• Visual communication
• Signs and symbols

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Buzz Spector, encyclopaedia -- Contours of meaning in the scripts of ancient Mesoamerica: Western epistemology and the phonetic issue / Gordon Brotherston -- Arts in letters: The aesthetics of ancient Greek writing / Alexandra Pappas -- Letter and spirit: The power of the letter, the enlivenment of the word in medieval art / Cynthia Hahn -- Visible and invisible letters: Text versus image in Renaissance England and Europe / Peter Stallybrass -- Illegibility and grammophobia in "Paul et Virginie" / Lorraine Piroux -- Written on the page / Jacques Neefs -- Buzz Spector, Kafka -- Face to face -- As if -- Sur-face text-ure -- Un coup de dés and La Prose du Transsibérien: A study in contraries / Mary Shaw -- Mathematics for "Just plain folks": Allegories of quantitative and qualitative information in the Habsburg sphere / Marija Dalbello -- Beneath the words: Visual messages in French fin-de-siècle posters / Phillip Dennis Cate -- How do you pronounce a pictogram? On "Visible writing" in comics / François Cornilliat -- Inviting words into the image: Multiple meanings in modern and contemporary art / Marilyn Symmes, with Christine Giviskos and Julia Tulovsky -- Color writings: On three polychrome texts / Tiphaine Samoyault -- Buzz Spector, Joyc-aean -- A rose is-- -- Kafka-esque -- Actual words of art -- The figurative and the gestural: Chinese writing according to Marcel Granet / Li Jinjia -- Michaux: To be read? To be seen? / Claude Mouchard -- Reading the Alhambra / Richard Serrano -- Catastrophe writings: In the wake of September 11 / Béatrice Fraenkel -- --visible, legible, illegible : Around a limit-- / Roxane Jubert -- Sttmnt -- Buzz Spector -- Buzz Spector, Colloquium #1 (Picture puzzles) -- Colloquium #2 -- Colloquium #3 -- Colloquium #4.

ISBN

• 9780813548821 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0813548829 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780813548838 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0813548837 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2010004651
• 99942280231

OCLC

• ocn527702682
• SCSB-5569953

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries