Library Books
Art and Text by Call Number: Moriarty Library NX650.L35 A78 2009ISBN: 9781906155650Publication Date: 2009-09-15Art 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 right up to the present day.
Figuring the Word by Call Number: Moriarty Library N7433.3 .D78 1998ISBN: 1887123237Publication Date: 1998-11-02Johanna Drucker is among the foremost authorities on the history of alphabets, writing, artists' books and visual poetry.
Writing on the Wall by Call Number: REQUEST THIS BOOK FROM MASSARTISBN: 0520241088Publication Date: 2003-12-10From the cut-up Cubist collages of Picasso to the monumental filmic narratives of Fiona Banner, and from the schoolboy subversion of Magritte to the demotic scrawl of Cy Twombly, the use of words is one of the defining features of modern art. Indeed, with many contemporary works, only those without text are remarkable.
Words to Be Looked At by Call Number: NX650.L35 K68 2010ISBN: 9780262514033Publication Date: 2010-02-26Language has been a primary element in visual art since the 1960s -- in the form of printed texts, painted signs, words on the wall, recorded speech, and more. In Words to Be Looked At, Liz Kotz traces this practice to its beginnings, examining works of visual art, poetry, and experimental music created in and around New York City from 1958 to 1968.
Art, Word and Image by Call Number: Moriarty Library N72.W75 H86 2010ISBN: 9781861895202Publication Date: 2010-06-15What does it mean to say that a painting has been "invaded" by language? Art, Word and Image answers this question by exploring how visual images and writing can work in dialogue in an artwork.
Artists Who Use Text in their Work
Here is WORKING LIST of artists who incorporate text or words into their art:
- John Baldessari
- Fiona Banner
- Robert Barry
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Xu Bing
- Charles Demuth
- Tracey Emin
- Hannah Hoch
- Jenny Holzer
- Robert Indiana
- Jasper Johns
- On Kawara
- Joseph Kosuth
- Barbara Kruger
- El Lissitzky
- René Magritte
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
- Bruce Nauman
- Shirin Neshat
- Pablo Picasso
- Dieter Roth
- Ed Ruscha
- Kurt Schwitters
- Cy Twombly
- Lawrence Weiner
- Christopher Wool