Art and Text
- ISBN-10
- 1910433187
- ISBN-13
- 9781910433188
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-09-29
- Publisher
- Black Dog Pub Limited
- Author
- Aimee Selby
Description
Art and Text covers the development of the textual medium in art from the early combinations of text, lettering and image in the work of seminal artists such as El Lissitzky and Kurt Schwitters, to its use in the present day. The use of written language has been one of the most defining developments in visual art of the twentieth century. Art and Text is a unique and timely survey of this most contemporary and relevant artistic tool. The use of text can be seen in many of the twentieth century’s avant-garde artworks; René Magritte and the dadaists used it to describe anti-art and anti-aesthetic sentiment; and the work of many conceptual artists of the 1960s even began to use written language as an artwork in itself. Artists such as John Baldessari, Lawrence Weiner and Bruce Nauman—who remain some of the world’s most respected artists—helped push the boundaries of art’s definition with text, and what constitutes art has continued to develop in response ever since. Contemporary artists continue to use this medium and expand its possibilities, for example, as a most direct and immediate means of artistic expression, as in the work of Tracey Emin or Cy Twombly, or an effective socio-political artistic mechanism, like in that of BANK, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jenny Holzer.
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