Publication Date
2011
Publication Place
New Brunswick, N.J. -
Rutgers University Press, c2011.
Subject
Visual communication, Signs and symbols
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
356
Physical Dimensions
29 cm
Library
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Record ID
3100001~!113076~!4668
Library Location
HS-SS Stacks
Date
2011
Notes
"The present collection originated in a 2006 interdisciplinary conference co-organized by the French Department and the Jane Voohees Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University and Université Paris 8-Saint-Dennis"--Acknowledgments, p. ix., Includes bibliographical references and index.. "The present collection originated in a 2006 interdisciplinary conference co-organized by the French Department and the Jane Voohees Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University and Université Paris 8-Saint-Dennis"--Acknowledgments, p. ix., Includes bibliographical references and index.. 113076. x, 356 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. ; 29 cm.
İçindekiler
Introduction / Mary Shaw -- Introduction / Marija Dalbello -- 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 (cloth : alk. paper), 0813548829 (cloth : alk. paper), 9780813548838 (pbk. : alk. paper), 0813548837 (pbk. : alk. paper)
