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WORDS AND IMAGES
As in traditional manuscripts with texts juxtaposed to miniature paintings much of today work shows the artist's fascination with combining words and images. The image whether "realistic" or symbolic, can find many different relationships to the text.
In the works Immaculate Conception, Holocaust and the Stroke of Leprosy by Denis Brown for example, a complex range of symbolic imagery dominates the work and combines with the text to reveal the content. In other pieces, such as Jane Dill's Twilight Muse, Jan Owen's Gloria, and Nancy Leavitt's Sunlight, images are used to expand the feeling of the text. In Cheryl Jacobsen book, Unsavory Sandwiches images like the juicy tomato dominate and help to define the humour of the work. Recognizable objects, including book parts, and old printed papers are used in the series of conceptual works by Brody Neuenschwander. The images, as in The Book of Old Age, help to reveal the meaning of the text: they have also been effectively combined with texts to produce visually abstract provocative works.
The most potent use of words and images occurs when the artist finds a relationship where in the words and images combine in a dependent manner to define the content of a work. Take either one away and the work either loses its meaning or becomes something completely different.
This idea is exemplified in Georgianna Greenwood's Eros I. The text without the image brings forth many other probable images and the image without the text other probable images. The two, text and image, meet here to produce a delightfully humourous and unexpected erotic work.
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pages 54 and 55
WORDS AND IMAGES
Thomas Ingmire's text |
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EXPRESSIVE CALLIGRAPHY
Patricia Allison
Olive Bull
Franca Hanane
Kennedy Hansen
Jan Roald
Maura Tonetto
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pages 38 and 39
EXPRESSIVE CALLIGRAPHY
Olive Bull (Australia)
Night Strikes Sparks 1996
Stick ink on Arches Textwove; 25,5 x 23 cm
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