Visible writings : cultures, forms, readings /

Visible writings : cultures, forms, readings /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Shaw, Mary Lewis, Dalbello, Marija
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Signs and symbols.
Visual communication.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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 des & La Prose du Transsiberien: 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-Siecle 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 / Beatrice Fraenkel
  • -visible, legible, illegible- : Around a limit / Roxane Jubert
  • Sttmnt
  • Buzz Spector
  • Buzz Spector, Colloquium #1 (Picture puzzles)
  • Colloquium #2
  • Colloquium #3
  • Colloquium #4.