Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices
Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices
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Abstract
Mixed Messages presents and interrogates ten distinct moments from the arts of nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century America where visual and verbal forms blend and clash. Charting correspondences concerned with the expression and meaning of human experience, this volume moves beyond standard interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to consider the written and visual artwork in embodied, cognitive, and contextual terms. Offering a genuinely interdisciplinary contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, avant-garde studies, word-image relations, and literary studies, Mixed Messages takes in architecture, notebooks, poetry, painting, conceptual art, contemporary art, comic books, photographs and installations, ending with a speculative conclusion on the role of the body in the experience of digital mixed media. Each of the ten case studies explores the juxtaposition of visual and verbal forms in a manner that moves away from treating verbal and visual symbols as operating in binary or oppositional systems, and towards a consideration of mixed media, multi-media and intermedia work as brought together in acts of creation, exhibition, reading, viewing, and immersion. The collection advances research into embodiment theory, affect, pragmatist aesthetics, as well as into the continuing legacy of romanticism and of dada, conceptual art and surrealism in an American context.
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Front Matter
- Introduction: to fasten words again to visible – and invisible – things
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A poetics of organic expression: Louis Sullivan’s transcendentalist legacy in word and image
Lauren S. Weingarden
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Photographic studies in the Hawthornes’ American Note-books
Jessie Morgan-Owens
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Fragments of the future: Walker Evans’s polaroids
Caroline Blinder
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Cartooning the marvelous: word and image in Chicago Surrealism
Joanna Pawlik
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‘Twenty-six things at once’: pragmatic perspectives on Frank O’Hara and Norman Bluhm’s Poem-Paintings
Catherine Gander
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‘Being kept in the dark can be a critical gesture’: Arakawa and Madeline Gins’s Mechanism of Meaning
Sarah Garland
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‘Then art will change. This is the future’: Nancy Spero’s manifestary practice
Rachel Warriner
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Forms of potential: reading Lawrence Weiner
Katie L. Price
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Testimony by hand: Ann Hamilton’s myein
Julie Phillips Brown
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Reading with a knife, or the book art of subtraction: the altered books of Brian Dettmer and Doug Beube
Katy Masuga
- 11 The idea, the machine and the art: word and image in the twenty-first century. Envoi1
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End Matter
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