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Visual vs. Text Representation in Art & Design

Explore the significance of visual and textual representations in art through historical examples like illuminated manuscripts, ancient hieroglyphs, and modern graphic design. Discover how artists like Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger use text to convey powerful messages in their works.

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Visual vs. Text Representation in Art & Design

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  1. LECTURE 8: “TEXT”

  2. I M A G Ea visual representation of something T E X Ta written representation of something

  3. Joseph Kosuth, One and three chairs, 1965

  4. James Montgomery Flagg, “US Army Recruitment Poster,” 1917

  5. Ihap Hulusi, Eroin ve akibeti, ca. 1940

  6. “illuminated manuscripts,” from the 13th century

  7. Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphson the Obelisk of Tuthmosis III,Istanbul, TURKEY

  8. Japanese “Kanji” writing

  9. “Square Kufic” Arabic script

  10. Allah Muhammad Ali “Zeynel Bey Mausoleum,” Hasankeyf, TURKEY, 1473

  11. Bülent Erkmen, “Frankfurt Book Fair Logo,” 2008

  12. calligraphy(from Greek: “kallos” beauty +“graphẽ” writing)

  13. MACKIE, NEW YORK SUBWAY GRAFFITI, 1978 (+ Fresk, Izmir 2014)

  14. It’s raining women’s voices as if they had died even in memory And it’s raining you as well marvelous encounters of my life O little drops Those rearing clouds begin to neigh a whole universe of auricular cities Listen if it rains while regret and disdain weep to an ancient music Listen to the bonds fall off which hold you above and below Guillaume Apollinaire, “Il Pleut” (“It’s Raining”), 1918

  15. American Institute of Graphic Arts,“Passenger/Pedestrian Oriented Symbols,” 1972

  16. Otl Aicher, “Pictograms for the Munich Olympics,” 1972

  17. Roy Lichtenstein, WHAAM, 1963

  18. Barbara Kruger, Untitled artworks,1980s

  19. Jenny Holzer, “Guggenheim Installation,” 1990

  20. Jenny Holzer, “For the Guggenheim,” 2008

  21. Ayşe Erkmen, Am Haus, Berlin 1994

  22. Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Briown,“Lehigh Valley Hospital,” Pennsylvania, USA, 2005

  23. KOÇTAŞ Group, Exterior and Interior Signage, 2008

  24. Chevrolet Motor Company, “Bel Air,” 1956

  25. Palette Industries, “Dharma Chair,” 2008 (The chair writes: STAND, FORGET, BREATHE, KNOWLEDGE, OBSERVE)

  26. Little Factory Design Group, “Letter Scarves,” 2008

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