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WordPower: Language as Medium: Book I
Language as Medium (Book I of II)
A two-part cross referenced artists' book
(Book Illustrations, Book Index)
Compiled and edited by Sarah Peace
*A reprint of the original art edition* From audacious neon wordplay to minimalist mark-making and smart new media hypertext, WordPower features various forms of text art expressed through action, performance, speech, drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, photography, community engagement and intervention in public spaces. At the centre of their process is the desire to distribute ideas through language, disrupting ways in which works of art are ‘read’ and have devised methods for transcribing speech and language into objects to be looked at. In the tradition of the long-established genre, the artists in WordPower build on the foundation of the works of masters such as Lawrence Weiner , Glenn Ligon , Barbara Kruger , Jenny Holzer , Fiona Banner and others to produce contemporary additions taking on dynamic forms – in some cases reflecting the extent of the permeation of technology into everyday life, advances in communication and the way information is consumed. With artists from the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, South Korea, Japan, Ukraine, Chile, Uganda, Iran, and Israel, the selected works of more than 100 artists offers a glimpse at a diverse range of creative practices that locate the written word as central to their process.
A two-part cross referenced artists' book
(Book Illustrations, Book Index)
Compiled and edited by Sarah Peace
*A reprint of the original art edition* From audacious neon wordplay to minimalist mark-making and smart new media hypertext, WordPower features various forms of text art expressed through action, performance, speech, drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, photography, community engagement and intervention in public spaces. At the centre of their process is the desire to distribute ideas through language, disrupting ways in which works of art are ‘read’ and have devised methods for transcribing speech and language into objects to be looked at. In the tradition of the long-established genre, the artists in WordPower build on the foundation of the works of masters such as Lawrence Weiner , Glenn Ligon , Barbara Kruger , Jenny Holzer , Fiona Banner and others to produce contemporary additions taking on dynamic forms – in some cases reflecting the extent of the permeation of technology into everyday life, advances in communication and the way information is consumed. With artists from the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, South Korea, Japan, Ukraine, Chile, Uganda, Iran, and Israel, the selected works of more than 100 artists offers a glimpse at a diverse range of creative practices that locate the written word as central to their process.
182 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2019
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