Visible writings
Subtitle: cultures, forms, readings
By: edited by Marija Dalbello and Mary Shaw.
Contributors: Dalbello, Marija.; Shaw, Mary Lewis.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780813548821; 9780813548838
Subjects: Visual communication; Signs and symbols
Description: "This vastly learned, superbly illustrated collection has not a dull text within it. I was enlightened and fascinated by every essay on every topic. Visible Writings is a book to treasure."-Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

"This is an imaginative collection of tightly argued, well-researched pieces that expose the multiple dimensions of all that makes writing visible. Addressing many forms and formats, the book makes excellent--and entertaining--reading!"-Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies, UCLA.

Exploring the concept and history of visual and graphic epistemologies, this multicultural collection provides insights into the many forms of connection between visibility and legibility. With more than 130 color and black-and-white photographs, Visible Writings sheds new light on the visual dimensions of writing and on its interaction with images, analyzing their effects on our experiences of reading and seeing.

Whether they consider literature, art, or other objects, these essays reach outside traditional disciplinary venues to encompass domains as diverse as the history and anthropology of writing, philosophy of language, and the emerging area of visual studies. Together, they offer to anyone interested in the relationships between texts and images a prism through which to follow the subtle play of connections within and around the written sign. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Buzz Spector, encyclopaedia; title: Contours of meaning in the scripts of ancient MesoAmerica:  Western epistemology and the phonetic issue / Gordon Brotherston; title: Arts in letters:  The aesthetics of ancient Greek writing / Alexandra Pappas; title: Letter and spirit:  The power of the letter, the enlivenment of the word in medieval art / Cynthia Hahn; title: Visible and invisible letters:  Text versus image in Renaissance England and Europe / Peter Stallybrass; title: Illegibility and grammophobia in "Paul et Virginie" / Lorraine Piroux; title: Written on the page / Jacques Neefs; title: Buzz Spector, Kafka; title: Face to face; title: As if; title: Sur-face text-ure; title: Un coup de dés & La Prose du Transsibérien:  A study in contraries / Mary Shaw; title: Mathematics for "Just Plain Folks":  Allegories of quantitative and qualitative information in the Habsburg sphere / Marija Dalbello; title: Beneath the words:  Visual messages in French Fin-de-Siècle posters / Phillip Dennis Cate; title: How do you pronounce a pictogram?  On "Visible Writing" in comics / François Cornilliat; title: Inviting words into the image:  Multiple meanings in modern and contemporary art / Marilyn Symmes, with Christine Giviskos and Julia Tulovsky; title: Color writings:  On three polychrome texts / Tiphaine Samoyault; title: Buzz Spector, Joyc-aean; title: A rose is ?; title: Kafka-esque; title: Actual words of art; title: The figurative and the gestural:  Chinese writing according to Marcel Granet / Li Jinjia; title: Michaux:  To be read.  To be seen / Claude Mouchard; title: Reading the Alhambra / Richard Serrano; title: Catastrophe writings:  In the wake of September 11 / Béatrice Fraenkel; title: -visible, legible, illegible- :  Around a limit / Roxane Jubert; title: Sttmnt; title: Buzz Spector; title: Buzz Spector, Colloquium #1 (Picture puzzles); title: Colloquium #2; title: Colloquium #3; title: Colloquium #4.