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L'empire des signes
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ISSN: 01518089 ISBN: 2605000001 9782605000005 Year: 1980 Volume: 83 Publisher: Genève : Paris : A. Skira, Flammarion,

Things that talk : object lessons from art and science
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ISBN: 9781890951443 1890951439 1890951447 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York : Zone Books,

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Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, explain, remark on, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would, in short, stop speaking ; we would become as mute as objects are alleged to be. In nine original essays, internationally renowned historians of art and of science seek to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing their gritty materiality. Things That Talk aims to escape the opposition between positivist facts and cultural readings that bifurcates the current historiography of both art and science. Confronting this impasse from an interdisciplinary perspective, each author singles out one object for close attention : a Bosch drawing, the freestanding column, a Prussian island, soap bubbles, early photographs, glass flowers, Rorschach blots, newspaper clippings, paintings by Jackson Pollock. Each object is revealed to be a node around which meanings accrete thickly. But not just any meanings: what these things are made of and how they are made shape what they can mean. Neither the pure texts of semiotics nor the brute objects of positivism, these things are saturated with cultural significance. Things become talkative when they fuse matter and meaning; they lapse into speechlessness when their matter and meanings no longer mesh.


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Art, word and image : two thousand years of visual-textual interaction
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ISBN: 9781861897459 1861897456 9781861895202 1861895208 Year: 2010 Publisher: London : Reaktion,

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[back cover:] This book is the first attempt to chart the history of art and its interaction with written language. Art, Word and Image examines the use of words (or language) in many genres of art – most often painting, but including prints, the book as art, sculpture, installation,and performance. This book asks what does it mean when a painting is 'invaded' by language? How do the two forms converse and combine, and what messages are intended for the viewer? In addition, other important themes that are also addressed include the naming or titling of paintings, the uses of narrative in art, and the literary connections and aspirations of artists. ## Art, Word and Image is constructed around three wide-ranging essays by John Dixon Hunt, David Lomas and Michael Corris. These essays discuss the use and significance of words in art – from Classical Greece and Assyria, through to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, to modern times and today’s digital media, where the words and imagequestion has become a central issue. The essays cover a variety of movements (Pre-Raphaelites, Cubists, Surrealists, and Lettrists, for example) and many artists, among them Duchamp, Picasso, Ernst, Twombly, Michaux, Warhol and Kruger. The book also includes ‘spotlight’ essays on artists whose work engages substantially with questions ofword and image: Blake, Klee, Schwitters, Haack, Pettibon, McCahon and Walla. ## This ground-breaking book will form a new framework for thinking about the interactions between word and image in the visual arts. ## With contributions by Jeremy Adler, Stephen Barber, Rex Butler and Laurence Simmons, Michael Corris, John Dixon Hunt, Michael R. Leaman, David Lomas, Joseph Viscomi, Hamza Walker, Barbara Weyandt and Michael White.

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Beeldende kunst ; kunst en tekst --- Beeld en woord ; beeld en tekst --- Blake, William --- Klee, Paul --- Schwitters, Kurt --- Walla, August --- McCahon, Colin --- Haack, Horst --- Pettibon, Raymond --- Kruger Barbara --- Warhol Andy --- Twombly Cy --- Ernst Max --- Picasso Pablo --- lettrisme --- prerafaëlieten --- Pettibon Raymond --- Haack Horst --- McCahon Colin --- Walla August --- Klee Paul --- Blake William --- woord en beeld --- Iconografie ; verschillende onderwerpen --- texts [documents] --- art theory --- Finlay, Ian Hamilton --- Johns, Jasper --- Fulton, Hamish --- Kosuth, Joseph --- Dubuffet, Jean --- Warhol, Andy --- Ruscha, Ed --- Basquiat, Jean-Michel --- Weiner, Lawrence --- Rodtschenko, Alexander Michajlowitsch --- Picasso, Pablo --- Picabia, Francis --- Lichtenstein, Roy --- Baldessari, John --- Ernst, Max --- Jaar, Alfredo --- Lissitzky, Eliezer --- Jorn, Asger --- Kiefer, Anselm --- Höch, Hannah --- Moholy-Nagy, László --- Cornell, Joseph --- Gilbert and George --- Hausmann, Raoul --- Morris, Robert --- Michaux, Henri --- Delaunay, Sonia --- Miró, Joan --- Broodthaers, Marcel --- Dalí, Salvador --- Scanlan, Joe --- Hamilton, Richard --- Matta-Clark, Gordon --- Twombly, Cy --- Wearing, Gillian --- Rauschenberg, Robert --- Schneeman, Carolee --- Magritte, René --- Dean, Tacita --- Opałka, Roman --- Indiana, Robert --- Holman Hunt, William --- Bulatov, Erik --- 7.049 --- Michaux Henri --- Duchamp Marcel --- surrealisme --- kubisme --- 7.036 --- twintigste eeuw --- 7.03 --- kunst --- Art --- History --- Iconography --- Semiotics --- language [general communication] --- art history --- Man Ray --- Kruger, Barbara --- Holzer, Jenny --- Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso --- Braque, Georges --- Duchamp, Marcel --- Rosler, Martha --- Art & Language --- Lissitzky, El --- Hunt, William Holman --- Sémiotique et art. --- Sémiotique et art.

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