Image and Text in Conceptual Art: Critical Operations in Context

ISBN-13: 9783319832050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 264 str.

Eve Kalyva

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Parallels between Art and Language

2. The Performative Gesture of Image and Text Juxtapositions

3. The Logico-semantics of Image and Text

4. Rhetorical Operations and the Discursive Creation of Meaning

Conclusions

Bibliography

O autorze

Eve Kalyva’s research concerns post-sixties and contemporary art, multimodality and the relation between art and politics. She has taught at universities in the United Kingdom and Argentina, and collaborated with international art institutions as curator and artist in residence. Her publications cover art history and criticism, philosophy, social semiotics, image and text studies, Latin American studies, museum studies and visual culture.

Blurb

This book examines the use of image/text juxtapositions in conceptual art as a critical strategy to challenge the ideological and institutional demands placed on art. While conceptual art is generally identified by its use of language, its analysis should make clear how exactly language was used. In particular, this book asks: how has the presence of language in a visual art context changed the ways art is talked about, theorized and produced? Image and Text in Conceptual Art demonstrates how artworks communicate in context and evaluates their critical potential. It considers international case studies and draws interdisciplinary resources from art history and theory, philosophy, discourse analysis, social semiotics, and literary criticism. It presents three analytic frameworks that engage art’s critical and social dimensions: the work’s performative gesture, its logico-semantic relations, and the rhetorical operations in the discursive creation of meaning, and offers a comprehensive method of analysis that can be applied beyond conceptual art.