Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Word Made Flesh

Johanna Drucker

0/5 ( ratings)

Calling attention to the visual materiality of the text, this book attempts to halt linear reading, trapping the eye in a field of letters which make a complex object on the page. The writing refers continually to the visceral character of language, literalizing metaphors of tongue, breath, and flesh. The work both embodies and discusses language as a physical form, one whose properties cannot be ignored by arriving at a disembodied content. The format of this work invokes a reference to the carmina figurata of the Renaissance -- works in which a sacred image was picked out in red letters against a field of black type so that a holy figure could be seen and meditated on in the process of reading. The technique is reversed here, with the red field of small type serving as a background in which large, black letters are arranged like figures on the red ground. This is a facsimile reprint of an original letterpress edition issued in 1989.

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Granary Books

Release: January 01, 1996

ISBN: 1887123091

ISBN 13: 9781887123099

The Word Made Flesh

Johanna Drucker

0/5 ( ratings)

Calling attention to the visual materiality of the text, this book attempts to halt linear reading, trapping the eye in a field of letters which make a complex object on the page. The writing refers continually to the visceral character of language, literalizing metaphors of tongue, breath, and flesh. The work both embodies and discusses language as a physical form, one whose properties cannot be ignored by arriving at a disembodied content. The format of this work invokes a reference to the carmina figurata of the Renaissance -- works in which a sacred image was picked out in red letters against a field of black type so that a holy figure could be seen and meditated on in the process of reading. The technique is reversed here, with the red field of small type serving as a background in which large, black letters are arranged like figures on the red ground. This is a facsimile reprint of an original letterpress edition issued in 1989.

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Granary Books

Release: January 01, 1996

ISBN: 1887123091

ISBN 13: 9781887123099

More books from Johanna Drucker

The Book as Art: Artists' Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts

4.4/5 ( ratings)

The Century of Artists' Books

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Digital_humanities

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Downdrift

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Figuring the Word

M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism

Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Avant-Post: The Avant-Garde under "Post-" Conditions

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Bruce Nauman: Make Me Think Me

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Experimental Visual Concrete: Avant-Garde Poetry Since the 1960s

4.6/5 ( ratings)

J. Paul Getty Trust Report 2014: Digital Humanities at the Getty

American Art 1975-1995 from the Whitney Museum/Arte Americana 1975-1995 Dal Whitney Museum: Multiple Identity/Identita Multiple

Dark Decade

Theorizing Modernism: Visual Art and the Critical Tradition

Night Crawlers On the Web

Rate this book!

Write a review?