Offering a major contribution to the field of American culture and aesthetics in an interdisciplinary frame, this collection assembles the cutting-edge research of renowned and emerging scholars in literature and the visual arts, with a foreword by Miles Orvell. The volume represents the first of its kind: an intervention in current interdisciplinary approaches to the intersections of the written word and the visual image that moves beyond standard theoretical approaches to consider the written and visual artwork in embodied, cognitive and experiential terms. Tracing a strong lineage of pragmatism, romanticism, surrealism and dada in American intermedial works through the nineteenth century to the present day, the editors and authors of this volume chart a new and vital methodology for the study and appreciation of the correspondences between visual and verbal practices.
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Review
"Mixed Messages offers a set of case studies which reappraise old American masters (the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and William Carlos Williams) to provoke new, enterprising understandings of artworks that press into service textual and visual features." - Matthew Holman, Oxford Art Journal, Volume 40, Issue 2
About the Author
Catherine Gander is Lecturer in American Literature and Visual Culture at Queen's University Belfast
Sarah Garland is Lecturer in American Literature and Visual Culture at the University of East Anglia
History
Art
Contemporary (1945-)
Cover
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Mixed messages 2
Contents 8
List of figures
10
List of contributors
14
Foreword by Miles Orvell
18
Acknowledgements
21
Introduction: to fasten words again to visible – and invisible – things:
Catherine Gander and Sarah Garland 22
1 A poetics of organic expression: Louis Sullivan’s transcendentalist legacy in word and image:
Lauren S. Weingarden 39
2 Photographic studies in the Hawthornes’ American Note-books:
Jessie Morgan-Owens 55
3 Fragments of the future: Walker Evans’s polaroids:
Caroline Blinder 72
4 Cartooning the marvelous: word and image in Chicago Surrealism:
Joanna Pawlik 88
5 ‘Twenty-six things at once’: pragmatic perspectives on Frank O’Hara and
Norman Bluhm’s Poem-Paintings: Catherine Gander 106
6 ‘Being kept in the dark can be a critical gesture’: Arakawa and Madeline Gins’s Mechanism of Meaning:
Sarah Garland 129
7 ‘Then art will change. This is the future’: Nancy Spero’s manifestary practice:
Rachel Warriner 150
8 Forms of potential: reading Lawrence Weiner:
Katie L. Price 166
9 Testimony by hand: Ann Hamilton’s myein:
Julie Phillips Brown 182
10 Reading with a knife, or the book art of subtraction: the altered books of Brian Dettmer and Doug Beube:
Katy Masuga 202
11 The idea, the machine and the art: word and image in the twenty-first century. Envoi:
Catherine Gander and Sarah Garland 221
Index 238

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This Book Presents An Intervention In Current Interdisciplinary Approaches To The Intersections Of The Written Word And The Visual Image That Moves Beyond Standard Theoretical Approaches To Consider The Written And Visual Artwork In Embodied, Cognitive And Experiential Terms. Tracing A Strong Lineage Of Pragmatism, Romanticism, Surrealism And Dada In American Intermedial Works Through The Nineteenth Century To The Present Day, The Editors And Authors Of This Volume Chart A New And Vital Methodology For The Study And Appreciation Of The Correspondences Between Visual And Verbal Practices. Introduction: To Fasten Words Again To Visible - An Invisible Things / Catherine Gander And Sarah Garland -- A Poetics Of Organic Expression: Louis Sullivan's Transcendentalist Legacy In Word And Image / Lauren S. Weingarden -- Photographic Studies In The Hawthorne's American Note-book / Jessie Morgan-owens -- Fragments Of The Future: Walker Evans's Polaroids / Caroline Blinder -- Cartooning The Marvelous: Word And Image In The Chicago Surrealism / Joanna Pawlik -- 'twenty-six Things At Once': Pragmatic Perspectives On Frank O'hara And Norman Bluhm's Poem-paintings / Sarah Garland -- Then Art Will Change. This Is The Future: Nancy Spero's Manifestary Practice / Rachel Warriner -- Forms Of Potential: Reading Lawrence Weiner / Katie L. Price -- Testimony By Hand: Ann Hamilton's Myein / Julie Philips Brown -- Reading With A Knife, Or The Book Art Of Subtraction: The Altered Books Of Brain Dettmer And Doug Beube / Katy Masuga -- The Idea, The Machine, And The Art: Word And Image In The Twenty-first Century. Envoi / Catherine Gander And Sarah Garland. Edited By Catherine Gander And Sarah Garland. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Addresses a genuine gap in word and image studies. It offers fresh conceptual frameworks in which to think about the relationship between visual and verbal practices, with American works and artefacts positioned within the context of the American philosophical tradition. -- .

2025-10-27