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.
Recenzijos
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 *
Daugiau informacijos
Encouraging us to rethink what we know about words and images and how they interact, this book highlights the complex relationship between ways of looking and reading.
List 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
Staėls 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 Sįnchez-Jįuregui,
University of Glasgow, UK)
6. Play with Literacy in Edward Lears 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
Ludmilla Jordanova is Emeritus Professor of History and Visual Culture at Durham University, UK. She is the author of History in Practice, 3rd Edition (Bloomsbury, 2019) and co-editor of Writing Visual Histories (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Florence Grant holds a PhD in History from King's College London, UK, and is currently an independent writer and editor based in Western North Carolina, USA. With Ludmilla Jordanova, she is co-editor of Writing Visual Histories (Bloomsbury, 2020).
