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Where Words and Images Meet

 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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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.
Table of Contents:
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 Staël's 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)
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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 Sánchez-Jáuregui, University of Glasgow, UK)
6. Play with Literacy in Edward Lear's Nonsense Alphabets (A. Robin Hoffman, Art Institute of Chicago, USA)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Afterword: Word, Image and Play

Bibliography
Index