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Title Mixed messages : American correspondences in visual and verbal practices / edited by Catherine Gander and Sarah Garland
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Contents Foreword -- Miles Orvell Introduction -- Catherine Gander and Sarah Garland 1. A poetics of organic expression: Louis Sullivan's transcendentalist legacy in word and image -- Lauren S. Weingarden 2. Photographic studies in the Hawthornes' American note-books -- Jessie Morgan-Owens 3. Fragments of the future: Walker Evans's polaroids -- Caroline Blinder 4. Cartooning the marvelous: word and image in Chicago Surrealism -- Joanna Pawlik 5. 'Twenty-six things at once': Pragmatic perspectives on Frank O'Hara and Norman Bluhm's Poem-Paintings -- Catherine Gander 6. 'Being kept in the dark can be a critical gesture': Arakawa and Madeline Gins' Mechanism of Meaning -- Sarah Garland 7. 'Then art will change. This is the future': Nancy Spero's manifestary practice -- Rachel Warriner 8. Forms of potential: reading Lawrence Weiner -- Katie L. Price 9. Testimony by hand: Ann Hamilton's myein -- Julie Brown 10. Reading with a knife, or the book art of subtraction: Brian Dettmer and Doug Beube's altered books -- Katy Masuga Envoi -- Catherine Gander and Sarah Garland Index
Summary Addresses a genuine gap in word and image studies. It offers fresh conceptual frameworks in which to think about the relationship between visual and verbal practices, with American works and artefacts positioned within the context of the American philosophical tradition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 02, 2021)
Subject Arts, American -- 19th century.
Arts, American -- 20th century.
Arts, American -- 21st century.
Art and literature.
Visual communication -- United States
Written communication -- United States
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
ART -- History -- General.
Arts, American
Art and literature
Visual communication
Written communication
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Gander, Catherine, editor
Garland, Sarah, editor
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