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1	Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art more books like this by Simon Morley add to wishlist This is the first systematic study of the use of words in artworks from the late 19th century to the present day. The 16 chapters are organized chronologically according to familiar artistic movements and groupings. see all copies from $5.60! new only from $12.98! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh more books like this by Ina Saltz add to wishlist This is a stunning photography collection on the use of typography in tattoo art, with an introduction and commentary provided by designer, Ina Saltz. This title will greatly appeal to graphic designers, typographers, the tattoo community, and a hip, pop-culturally savvy audience. The book has the written messages divided up into the following ... see all copies from $5.48! new only from $8.23! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Ed Ruscha: New Paintings and a Retrospective of Works on Paper more books like this by Ed Ruscha, Dave Hickey, Neville Wakefield add to wishlist The enigmatic language art of Ed Ruscha disorients the viewer by remaining purposely out-of-context, and thus Forever just beyond comprehension. In this new publication, New Paintings and a Retrospective of Works on Paper, the reader is confronted with an artistic identity that has remained singularly intact For close to four decades. Two in-depth ... see all copies from $21.15! new only from $21.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Martin Mull: Paintings more books like this by Martin Mull add to wishlist see all copies from $4.29! new only from $27.00! \| first editions
5	They Called Her Styrene, Etc. more books like this by Ed Ruscha add to wishlist Assembled in the form of a thick block, this book reproduces approximately 600 "word" drawings, paintings and works on paper by the Los Angeles-based American artist Edward Ruscha (b. 1937). The result is a sort of novel without an obvious plot, a series of words with no narrative. Ruscha began making prints and drawings consisting of one word on ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $15.52! \| first editions
6	The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text more books like this by Professor Garrett Stewart add to wishlist We take for granted that words can describe pictures, but we don't often consider that the reverse is also true: pictures can depict words, as well as the people reading them. In "The Look of Reading," Garrett Stewart explores centuries of painted images of reading, arguing that they collectively constitute an overlooked genre in the history of ... see all copies from $49.75! new only from $49.75! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Mel Bochner: Language 1966-2006 more books like this by Johanna Burton, Mel Bochner (Contributions by), James Meyer (Contributions by) add to wishlist A leading practitioner of conceptual art, Mel Bochner (b. 1940) was one of the first artists in the 1960s to reintroduce language into the visual field. Despite their significance, these contributions remain unexplored in art historical scholarship. This fascinating book provides for the first time an overview of Bochner's language-based works ... see all copies from $23.95! new only from $26.38! \| SVS
8	Words of Risk: The Art of Thomas Ingmire more books like this by Robert Williams, Karyn L. Gilman (Editor), Michael Gullick add to wishlist see all copies from $14.17! new only from $59.95! \| first editions
9	Ed Ruscha: The Word Paintings more books like this by Yve-Alain Bois add to wishlist see all copies from $30.00! first editions
10	Jenny Holzer: Laments more books like this by Jenny Holzer, Dia Art Foundation add to wishlist see all copies from $36.74!
11	Gunpowder and Stains more books like this by Edward Ruscha, Monika Spruth (Editor), Diedrich Diederichsen add to wishlist see all copies from $45.00! new only from $101.20! \| first editions
12	Pro Forma, Volume 3: Language/Text/Visual Art more books like this by Jessica Wyman (Editor) add to wishlist In this three-volume series, editor Jessica Wyman assembles essays that consider the developments and directions of the use of text in visual art, exploring what personal, social or political motivations inspire artists to use text and how text-based art is understood. Volume 3 examines art that translates between or crosses boundaries between ... see all copies from $22.81! new only from $22.81!
13	Pro Forma: Language/Text/Visual Art - Volume 1 more books like this by Jessica Wyman (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $19.40! new only from $19.40!
14	Ian Breakwell : textworks, 1966-1999 more books like this by Ian Breakwell, Colin Rhodes, Loughborough University. School of Art and Design add to wishlist see all copies from $50.88!
15	Hamish Fulton Und Peter Hutchinson more books like this by Hamish Fulton add to wishlist see all copies from $94.90!
16 view cover	Eklipse more books like this by Lothar Baumgarten, Thomas Wagner (Text by) add to wishlist Text by Thomas Wagner. Typography by Walter Nikkels. Lothar Baumgarten began in the 1960s to develop a critique of the system of naming. The works in this artists book are all wall drawings displayed on the walls of the interior or facade of the museum, the placement of which force the viewer to reflect critically on the historically constructed ... see all copies from $239.00! signed copies \| first editions
17	The Anatomy of the Image Maps According to Merriam-Webster's Third International Dictionary of the Engli more books like this by Bonnie Gordon add to wishlist see all copies from $50.00!
18 view cover	Icons, texts, iconotexts : essays on ekphrasis and intermediality more books like this by Peter Wagner add to wishlist see all copies from $299.00!
19 view cover	How to Touch What: An Artists' Book more books like this by Eve Sonneman, Lawrence Weiner add to wishlist World famous conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner and equally famed photographer Eve Sonneman have jointly produced what accurately may be regarded as a marriage of text and pictures. Weiner's signature rubber stamp art work takes a uniquely literal turn by gracing, or "stamping", Sonneman's photographs, the first time his work has ever appeared in ... see all copies from $3.67! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
20	Celebrating American Poetry: An Exhibition of Contemporary Letter Arts more books like this by Karyn L Gilman (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $12.95!
21	Max Ernst : Text-Bild-Kombinationen 1919 bis 1925 more books like this by Isabel Greschat add to wishlist see all copies from $91.42!
22	Les Mots dans la peinture more books like this by Michel Butor add to wishlist see all copies from $32.00! first editions
23	Edward Ruscha : romance with liquids: paintings 1966-1969 more books like this by Yve Alain Bois, Gagosian Gallery add to wishlist see all copies from $50.00! first editions
24	Crossroad of arts, crossroad of cultures more books like this by Masha Rubins add to wishlist This text is the study of the aesthetic similarities between the French Parnassians, a 19th century group of poets led by Theophile Gautier, and the Russian Acmeist poets, including Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova, who were active in the second decade of the 20th century. The Acmeists shared with the Parnassians a classical sensibility, an ... see all copies from $101.89!
25	Out of Context more books like this by Susan Joyce add to wishlist see all copies from $60.00! first editions

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