Where Words and Images Meet

Ludmilla Jordanova, Florence Grant, Ludmilla Jordanova, Florence Grant

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781350300552
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350300576
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Art

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

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Plates
• List of Illustrations
• List of Contributors
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• PART I Identifying with Books
• Discussion
• Chapter 1 Fronts Matter: The Role of the Authorial Frontispiece in Germaine de Staël’s Corinne; or, Italy Seren Nolan
• Chapter 2 Othering the Ex-Libris: Israel Solomons (1860–1923) and the Invention of the Jewish Bookplate Tom Stammers
• Bridge
• PART II Representing Authority
• Discussion
• Chapter 3 Picturing Criminal Law in Old Regime France: Brunel, Known as Bétancourt, Being Led to the Scaffold (1670) Tom Hamilton
• Chapter 4 Word and Image in Popular Science Joseph D. Martin
• Bridge
• PART III Order and Disorder
• Discussion
• Chapter 5 Museum Labels: Word and Object on Display Lola Sánchez-Jáuregui
• Chapter 6 Play with Literacy in Edward Lear’s Nonsense Alphabets A. Robin Hoffman
• Bridge
• PART IV Authenticity and Interpretation
• Discussion
• Chapter 7 On Taking Artists at Their Word: Artists’ Writings and Statements from 1850 to the Present Lucy Whelan
• Chapter 8 Portraiture and Biography: Harmonious Marriage or Difficult Relationship? Ludmilla Jordanova
• Bridge
• PART V Making, Compiling, Arranging
• Discussion
• Chapter 9 Extra-Illustration in Early Twentieth-Century England Ludmilla Jordanova
• Chapter 10 Beyond the Caption: Words and Images in an Interwar Soviet Amateur Photograph Album Antonia Miejluk
• Bridge
• PART VI Words in the Visual Field
• Discussion
• Chapter 11 Word as Image: The Verbal in the Photograph J. J. Long
• Chapter 12 Text–Image Hybridity in Know Thyself and Early Modern English Print Finola Finn
• Afterword: Word, Image and Play
• Bibliography
• Index