Over the past few weeks I have been looking further into the concepts of language and text in art. Drawing from the limitless quantities of information I have been taken through the disciplines of art, writing, history and philosophy on what I know could be an endless journey. What excites me which I never thought would before is the notion of how writing is a visual system that engages with the realm of thought, and a way of allowing an insight into the writer’s reality. It is also possible to turn text into a visual piece of art; not only can it be ‘read’ for its textual assets but for its visual qualities too (just as you could ‘read’ any other piece of visual artwork).
I have been looking closely at the material relating to the exhibition ‘Art=Text=Art’; a travelling exhibition from 2011to the present, and the artists exhibiting there. This has led me to a number of other pieces, including ‘A Humument’ by Tom Phillips which I saw at the RA Summer exhibition this year, and the novels of Jonathan Safran Foer, whose writing bypasses the conventional systems of prose and presents experimental word games across the pages.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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