Visible Writings: Cultures, Forms, Readings

Contents

CONTENTS ix Acknowledgments 2 Introduction Mary Shaw 3 Introduction Marija Dalbello 13 Buzz Spector, Encyclopaedia 15 Contours of Meaning in the Scripts of Ancient Mesoamerica: Western Epistemology and the Phonetic Issue Gordon Brotherston 37 Arts in Letters: The Aesthetics of Ancient Greek Writing Alexandra Pappas 55 Letter and Spirit: The Power of the Letter, the Enlivenment of the Word in Medieval Art Cynthia Hahn 77 Visible and Invisible Letters: Text versus Image in Renaissance England and Europe Peter Stallybrass 99 Illegibility and Grammaphobia in Paul et Virginie Lorraine Piroux 113 Written on the Page Jacques Neefs 131 Buzz Spector Kafka Face to Face As If Sur-face Text-ure 135 Un coup de dés and La Prose du Transsibérien: A Study in Contraries Mary Shaw 151 Mathematics for “Just Plain Folks”: Allegories of Quantitative and Qualitative Information in the Habsburg Sphere Marija Dalbello Contents vii 177 Beneath the Words: Visual Messages in French Fin-de-Siècle Posters Phillip Dennis Cate 195 How Do You Pronounce a Pictogram? On “Visible Writing” in Comics François Cornilliat 211 Inviting Words into the Image: Multiple Meanings in Modern and Contemporary Art Marilyn Symmes, with Christine Giviskos and Julia Tulovsky 237 Color Writings: On Three Polychrome Texts Tiphaine Samoyault 255 Buzz Spector Joyc-aean A Rose Is . . . Kafka-esque Actual Words of Art 259 The Figurative and the Gestural: Chinese Writing According to Marcel Granet Li Jinjia 273 Michaux: To Be Read? To Be Seen? Claude Mouchard 293 Reading the Alhambra Richard Serrano 305 Catastrophe Writings: In the Wake of September 11 Béatrice Fraenkel 319 . . . visible, legible, illegible : around a limit . . . Roxane Jubert 341 Sttmnt Buzz Spector 342 Buzz Spector Colloquium #1 (Picture Puzzles) Colloquium #2 Colloquium #3 Colloquium #4 347 Notes on Contributors 351 Index viii Contents ...