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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-101350300551

ISBN-139781350300552

eBay Product ID (ePID)14062260470

Product Key Features

Number of Pages248 Pages

Publication NameWhere Words and Images Meet

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

SubjectHistoriography, Graphic Arts / Illustration, Graphic Arts / General, History / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaDesign, Art, History

AuthorFlorence Grant

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight24.7 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width7.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2024-401047

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsFramed by a bracingly intelligent introduction and commentaries that challenge conventional notions about word/image relationships, the essays gathered here ground subtle arguments in detailed analyses of telling cases. The material is unfamiliar, the treatment eye-opening., "Framed by a bracingly intelligent introduction and commentaries that challenge conventional notions about word/image relationships, the essays gathered here ground subtle arguments in detailed analyses of telling cases. The material is unfamiliar, the treatment eye-opening." -- Elizabeth Cowling, University of Edinburgh, UK "Words and Images meet, and they also converse, in this exhilarating collection. It makes its mark not just a sequence of enthralling case studies but as a model for fruitful interdisciplinary discussion." -- Stephen Bann, Bristol University, UK "A superb edited volume ... Through their interventions as editors, Jordanova and Grant guide us through a series of thought-provoking topics. This is a book that asks us to think about why people put bookplates in their personal libraries, why we keep photographs, how popular illustrated journals function, and much, much more." -- Stephen Norris, Miami University, USA, "Framed by a bracingly intelligent introduction and commentaries that challenge conventional notions about word/image relationships, the essays gathered here ground subtle arguments in detailed analyses of telling cases. The material is unfamiliar, the treatment eye-opening." -- Elizabeth Cowling, University of Edinburgh, UK "Words and images meet, and they also converse, in this exhilarating collection. It makes its mark not just as a sequence of enthralling case studies but as a model for fruitful interdisciplinary discussion." -- Stephen Bann, Bristol University, UK "A superb edited volume ... Through their interventions as editors, Jordanova and Grant guide us through a series of thought-provoking topics. This is a book that asks us to think about why people put bookplates in their personal libraries, why we keep photographs, how popular illustrated journals function, and much, much more." -- Stephen Norris, Miami University, USA

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal306.36

Table Of ContentList of Plates List of Illustrations List of Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Identifying with Books Discussion 1. Fronts Matter: The Role of the Authorial Frontispiece in Germaine de Staël's Corinne: or, Italy (Seren Nolan, Durham University, UK) 2. Othering the Ex-Libris: Israel Solomons and the Invention of the Jewish Bookplate (Tom Stammers, Durham University, UK) Bridge Part II. Representing Authority Discussion 3. Picturing Criminal Law in Old Regime France (Tom Hamilton, Durham University, UK) 4. Word and Image in Popular Science (Joseph D. Martin, Durham University, UK) Bridge Part III. Order and Disorder Discussion 5. Museum Labels: Word and Object on Display (Lola Sánchez-Jáuregui, University of Glasgow, UK) 6. Play with Literacy in Edward Lear's Nonsense Alphabets (A. Robin Hoffman, Art Institute of Chicago, USA) Bridge Part IV. Authenticity and Interpretation Discussion 7. On Taking Artists at Their Word: Artists' Writings and Statements from 1850 to the Present (Lucy Whelan, University of Cambridge, UK) 8. Portraiture and Biography: Harmonious Marriage or Difficult Relationship? (Ludmilla Jordanova, Durham University, UK) Bridge Part V. Making, Compiling, Arranging Discussion 9. Extra-Illustration in Early Twentieth-Century England (Ludmilla Jordanova, Durham University, UK) 10. Beyond the Caption: Words and Images in an Interwar Soviet Amateur Photograph Album (Antonia Miejluk, Durham University, UK) Bridge Part VI. Words in the Visual Field Discussion 11. Word as Image: The Verbal in the Photograph (J. J. Long, Durham University, UK) 12. Text-Image Hybridity in Know Thyself and Early Modern English Print (Finola Finn, independent scholar, Germany) Bridge Afterword: Word, Image and Play Bibliography Index

SynopsisBringing together a fascinatingly diverse yet closely related group of subjects, Where Words and Images Meet asks us to rethink what we know about words and images and how they interact. From nineteenth-century frontispieces to Soviet photo albums, from the relationships between portraits and biographies to museum labels, the book's richly illustrated chapters open up historically specific relationships between word and image to collective examination and fruitful analysis. Written by both established and emerging scholars in a range of interrelated fields, the chapters deliberately foreground previously overlooked topics as well as unfamiliar disciplinary approaches, to offer a stimulating and carefully developed framework for looking at these ubiquitous phenomena afresh. Where Words and Images Meet opens up for analysis and reflection the forms of attention, practices, skills and assumptions that underlie visual interpretation and meaning-making in the writing of history. By bringing the features of the materials we read and look at into focus, we can grasp more effectively the complex interrelationships involved, and enhance our practice and understanding., Bringing together a fascinatingly diverse yet closely related group of subjects, Where Words and Images Meet asks us to rethink what we know about words and images and how they interact. From 19th-century frontispieces to Soviet photo albums, from the relationships between portraits and biographies to museum labels, the book's richly illustrated chapters open up historically specific connections between word and image to collective examination and fruitful analysis. Written by both established and emerging scholars in a range of interrelated fields, the chapters deliberately foreground previously overlooked topics as well as unfamiliar disciplinary approaches, to offer a stimulating and carefully developed framework for looking at these ubiquitous phenomena afresh. Where Words and Images Meet opens up for analysis and reflection the forms of attention, practices, skills and assumptions that underlie visual interpretation and meaning-making in the writing of history. By bringing the features of the materials we read and look at into focus, we can grasp more effectively the complex interrelationships involved, and enhance our practice and understanding.

LC Classification NumberNC960.W4 2024