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Writing on the Wall
Word and Image in Modern Art
by Simon Morley
ISBN: 0520241088
ISBN-13: 9780520241084
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: Univ of California Pr Published date: 2003 Size: 8.75 x 14 inches Weight: 3.1 pounds Pages: 224
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Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art
Simon Morley
University of California Press. Used - Good. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped daily. Over one million satisfied book lovers read with Experienced Books. 2003. Hardcover. 1. Good condition, showing modest signs of wear. ( more information) Offered by Experienced Books LLC (United States)
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Morley, Simon
University of California Press. Hardcover. 0520241088 Brand new! May have moderate-heavy wear to the dust jacket including a tear. Expedited shipping is available! . Good. ( more information) Offered by Bradley's Books (United States)
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Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art
Morley, Simon
University of California Press. Used - Like New. University of California Press. Ewing, New Jersey, 2003. Cloth. 4to. Book is Fine. profusely illustrated, 224 pages ( more information) Offered by Powell's Bookstores Chicago (United States)
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Writing On The Wall (Qty: 25)
Simon Morley
Univ of California Press, 2003. Hardcover. Brand New. 14.00 x 8.80 x 1.20. Brand new. Never read or owned. No marks. 49.6 oz. . ( more information) Offered by Books and More by the Rowe (United States)
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Morley, Simon
University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles, 2003 224 pp., 184 illus. mostly color. Just the slightest bit of shelf wear to the dustjacket edges, otherwise a fine copy. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover.. Cloth. Fine Condition/Fine Condition. ( more information) Offered by Exquisite Corpse, Booksellers (United States)
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Writing On The Wall: Word And Image In Modern Art
MORLEY, SIMON
University of California Press, Berkeley: 2003. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new copy. From the cut-up Cubist collages of Picasso to the monumental filmic narratives of Fiona Banner, and from the schoolboy subversion of Magritte to the demotic scrawl of Cy Twombly, the use of words is one of the defining features of modern art. Simon Morley traces the growing bond between word and iage, explaining how artists have harnessed the resulting tension to form identities, challenge authority, and make sense of a world in constant change. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0520241088. ( more information) Offered by Ad Infinitum Books (United States)
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Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art
Morley, Simon
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003 Cloth, 224 pp., illus. (some col.), biblio., index; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards (2 tips mildly bumped). Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "From the cut-up Cubist collages of Picasso to the monumental filmic narratives of Fiona Banner, and from the schoolboy subversion of Magritte to the demotic scrawl of Cy Twombly, the use of words is one of the defining features of modern art. Indeed, with many contemporary works, only those without text are remarkable. Exploring the strange, unsettling, and often humorous results when words escape their traditional confines and inhabit artworks, this book is the first sustained consideration of the manifold infiltrations of the written word into the visual arts from the nineteenth century to the present day. Simon Morley traces the growing bond between word and image, explaining how artists have harnessed the resulting tension to form identities, challenge authority, and make sense of a world in constant change. Writing on the Wall discusses familiar movements from the Impressionists to the present day, focusing on many works of modern art such as Dada nonsense words, Surrealist painting-poems, Constructivist typographies, oriental calligraphy, postwar gestural painting, and much more. As he considers these works, Morley reveals how artists have responded to an environment increasingly saturated with words, and also asks how the mass media have adopted and adapted artistic devices in propaganda, typography, and advertising. The book ends with a look at current developments in the world of hypertext, where word and image have at last found an essential unity. / Simon Morley is an artist, curator and lecturer. After studying at Oxford University he lived and trained as an artist in Italy, the United States, and finally at Goldsmiths College, London. He teaches at the Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, and has exhibited his work internationally." - Publisher. Contents: Introduction: Words and Pictures; Grand Bazar Universel: Impressionist Words; Merahi Metua No Tehamana: Symbolist Words; KUB: Cubist Words; Parole-in-libertà: Futurist Words; L.H.O.O.Q.: Dada Words; Futura : Constructivist Words; L'alphabet des rêves: Surrealist Words; Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge: Words and Power; Writing Degree Zero: Post-War Words; Intermedia: Neo-Dada Words; Coca-Cola: Pop Words; Art as Idea as Idea: Conceptual Words I; A Heap of Language: Conceptual Words II; The Prison-House Of Language : Postmodern Words; Creolization: Millennial Words; Epilogue: Hypertexts and Future Words.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ( more information) Offered by Left Coast Books (United States)
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