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Denise Schmandt-Besserat opened a major new chapter in the history of literacy when she demonstrated that the cuneiform script invented in the ancient Near East in the late fourth millennium BC--the world's oldest known system of writing--derived from an archaic counting device. Her discovery, which she published in Before Writing: From Counting to Cuneiform and How Writing Came About, was widely reported in professional journals and the popular press. In 1999, American Scientist chose How Writing Came About as one of the "100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science." In When Writing Met Art, Schmandt-Besserat expands her history of writing into the visual realm of communication. Using examples of ancient Near Eastern writing and masterpieces of art, she shows that between 3500 and 3000 BC the conventions of writing--everything from its linear organization to its semantic use of the form, size, order, and placement of signs--spread to the making of art, resulting in artworks that presented complex visual narratives in place of the repetitive motifs found on preliterate art objects. Schmandt-Besserat then demonstrates art's reciprocal impact on the development of writing. She shows how, beginning in 2700-2600 BC, the inclusion of inscriptions on funerary and votive art objects emancipated writing from its original accounting function. To fulfill its new role, writing evolved to replicate speech; this in turn made it possible to compile, organize, and synthesize unlimited amounts of information; and to preserve and disseminate information across time and space. Schmandt-Besserat's pioneering investigation of the interface between writing and art documents a key turning point in human history, when two of our most fundamental information media reciprocally multiplied their capacities to communicate. When writing met art, literate civilization was born.

Writing and art --- Art, Ancient --- Art and writing --- Art

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Writing and art. --- Art, Classical. --- Ecriture et art --- Inscriptions, Greek. --- Art gréco-romain --- Inscriptions grecques --- Inscriptions latines --- Inscriptions --- Art, Greek --- Art, Roman --- Inscriptions, Latin --- Art grec --- Art romain --- Art antique --- Art gréco-romain. --- Inscriptions grecques. --- Inscriptions latines. --- Art, Classical --- Inscriptions, Greek --- Writing and art --- Art and writing --- Epigraphs (Inscriptions) --- Epigraphy --- Inscription --- Greek inscriptions --- Classical art --- Art --- Paleography --- Epigraphists --- Greek language --- Greek philology --- Classical antiquities --- Art gréco-romain.

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Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300–800 CE), compares them to similar texts from pagan, Jewish, and Muslim spaces of worship, and explores how they functioned both textually and visually.These texts not only recorded the names and prayers of the faithful, but were powerful verbal and visual statements of cultural values and religious beliefs, conveying meaning through their words as well as through their appearances. In fact, the two were intimately connected. All of these texts – Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and pagan – acted visually, embracing their own materiality as mosaic, paint, or carved stone. Colourful and artfully arranged, the inscriptions framed human relationships with the divine, encouraged responses from readers, and made prayers material. In the first in-depth examination of the inscriptions as words and as images, the author reimagines the range of aesthetic, cultural, and religious experiences that were possible in spaces of worship.Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity is essential reading for those interested in Roman, late antique, and Byzantine material and visual culture, inscriptions and other texts, and religious life in the ancient Mediterranean.

Architectural inscriptions --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- Writing and art --- Mosaics, Ancient --- Church decoration and ornament --- Jewish decoration and ornament --- Islamic decoration and ornament --- Decoration and ornament, Islamic --- Muslim decoration and ornament --- Decoration and ornament --- Decoration and ornament, Jewish --- Church ornament --- Ecclesiastical decoration and ornament --- Interior decoration --- Religious articles --- Christian art and symbolism --- Art and writing --- Art --- Architectural decoration and ornament --- Architecture --- Stonework, Decorative --- Architectural design --- Exterior walls --- Architectural lettering --- Building inscriptions --- House inscriptions --- Inscriptions, Architectural --- Inscriptions --- Lettering --- History --- E-books --- Mosaics, Ancient - Mediterranean Region --- Writing and art - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 --- Architectural inscriptions - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500

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From antiquity to the modern age, legal, documentary, exegetical, literary, and linguistic traditions have viewed the relationship between image and letter in diverse ways. There is a long history of scholarship examining this relationship, probing the manner and meaning of its dynamics in terms of equivalency, complementarity, and polarity. 00This volume addresses the pictorial dimension of writing systems from cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives. Historians -including specialists in art and literature- paleographers, and anthropologists consider imagistic scripts of the ancient and medieval Near East, Europe, Byzantium, and Latin America, and within Jewish, polytheistic, Christian, and Muslim cultures. They engage with pictographic, ideographic, and logographic writing systems, as well as with alphabetic scripts, examining diverse examples of cross-pollination between language and art.

Writing in art --- Writing and art --- Picture-writing, Indian --- Monograms --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- Signs and symbols --- Ecriture dans l'art --- Ecriture et art --- Ecriture pictographique indienne d'Amérique --- Monogrammes --- Enluminure médiévale --- Signes et symboles --- History --- Congresses. --- Religious aspects --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Aspect religieux --- Writing in art. --- Picture-writing --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. --- Representation, Symbolic --- Semeiotics --- Signs --- Symbolic representation --- Symbols --- Abbreviations --- Omens --- Semiotics --- Sign language --- Symbolism --- Visual communication --- Painting, Medieval --- Ciphers (Lettering) --- Decoration and ornament --- Inscriptions --- Lettering --- Alphabets --- Initials --- Ideography --- Pictographs --- Pictography --- Archaeology --- Hieroglyphics --- Writing --- Art and writing --- Art --- History. --- Religious aspects. --- 091.14 : 003 --- 091.31 --- 091.14 --- 091.14:003 --- 091.14:003 Codices--schrift-- Zie ook: {930.272} Paleografie --- Codices--schrift-- Zie ook: {930.272} Paleografie --- 091.31 Verluchte handschriften --- Verluchte handschriften --- 091.14 Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria --- Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria --- Calligraphy --- Calligraphy. --- Monograms. --- Picture-writing. --- Writing and art. --- Ecriture pictographique indienne d'Amérique --- Enluminure médiévale --- Congrès