Contributions

  • Lau, Jordis - Contributor
  • Marxsen, Maraike M. - Contributor

Publication

Taylor & Francis, No place, unknown, or undetermined

Language

English

Word Count

82,500 words, Guess

Page Count

330 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781138091511
  • ISBN-139781138091528
  • ISBN-139781315107981
  • ISBN-101138091510
  • ISBN-101138091529
and 8 more
  • ISBN-101315107988
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018030498
  • OCLC Control Number1053887969
  • OCLC Control Number1008987194
  • Better World Books9781138091528
  • Better World Books9781138091511
  • Better World Books9781315107981
  • Open LibraryOL28356831M

Classifications

  • LCCPG3020.5
  • LCCPG3021
  • LCCPN53 .B45 2019

Description

?Language can be this incredibly forceful material?there?s something about it where if you can strip away its history, get to the materiality of it, it can rip into you like claws? (Hill in Vischer 1995, 11). This arresting image by media artist Gary Hill evokes the nearly physical force of language to hold recipients in its grip. That power seems to lie in the material of language itself, which, with a certain rawness, may captivate or touch, pounce on, or even harm its addressee. Hill?s choice of words is revealing: ?rip into? suggests not only a metaphorical emotional pull but also the literal physicality of linguistic attack. It is no coincidence that the statement comes from a media artist, since media artworks often use language to produce a strong sensorial stimulus. Media artworks not only manipulate language as a material in itself, but they also manipulate the viewer?s perceptual channels. The guises and effects of language as artistic material are the topic of this book, The Literariness of Media Art.

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  • The Literariness of Media ArtTaylor & Francis

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