Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art by Morley, Simon - 2003

University of California Press, 2003. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of California Press, 2003. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of California Press, 2003. Hardcover. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of California Press. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. Cloth, 224 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards (tips mildly bumped). Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "From 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. Exploring the strange, unsettling, and often humorous results when words escape their traditional confines and inhabit artworks, this book is the first sustained consideration of the manifold infiltrations of the written word into the visual arts from the nineteenth century to the present day. Simon Morley traces the growing bond between word and image, explaining how artists have harnessed the… Read More

Paperback. Good.

Paperback. Acceptable.

University of California Press, 2003-12-10. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!