Image and Text

Open to the Art School only. This course may be
open to students at other year levels, and in
other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
This studio course will examine formal and
conceptual strategies for combining image and
text. In order to contextualize this hybrid
practice, we will look at the use of text in
conceptual and political art, narrative
paintings, advertising, comics and strip
narratives, maps, and illuminated manuscripts.
Rather than maintain categorical boundaries
between the arts, this course promotes the use of
language and image as an important gesture to
develop alternative meanings for art and to
critically investigate the underlying premises of
singularity and monumentality in the
institutionalization of art. To read the image
as text or conversely to contextualize the image
with text or additionally to produce the text as
image suggests that the art object can be
understood as a cultural text rather than solely
as evidence of the personal expression. Students
working in all media are encouraged to attend.