Research Catalog

Title

Writing on the wall : word and image in modern art / Simon Morley.

Author

Morley, Simon.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

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Description

224 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Summary

"This study explores the strange, unsettling and often humorous results when words escape their traditional confines and inhabit artworks. It traces the growing bond between word and image in art, explaining how artists since the late nineteenth century have harnessed the resulting tension to form identities, challenge authority and make sense of a world in constant change. Arranged by significant movements from the impressionists to the present day. Writing on the Wall also reveals how artists have responded to an environment increasingly saturated with words, and how the mass media have adopted and adapted artistic devices in lypography, propaganda and advertising."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Word and image in modern art

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Writing in art
• Symbolism in art
• Art, Modern > 20th century
• Words in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 rêves : 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.

ISBN

0520241088

OCLC

53813544

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library