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LIST OF ART WORKS USED

A New Alphabet Iconographic Language and Textual Embodiment

 List of Figures - Art Works Used by Page Letter

Cover
Collage digitally altered image, Tattoo David. 2002.
Michelangelo. Statue David (at Piazza della Signoria, in the Palazzo Vecchio) Florence, 1501 - 1504.

FrontPiece
Painting, Gallery. 19th Century
Freindlander, Lee. Photograph. Boy in the Window. 1962.
Bonamie, Bart. Photograph. The Scholars Tour Ghent at AILA Conference Multiliteracies. 2003
 

Introduction  a Note on Method
Bonamie, Bart. Photograph. Readers 1 at a Street Cafe in Ghent, Belgium. 2003.
Bonamie, Bart. Photograph. Readers 2 at a Street Cafe in Ghent, Belgium. 2003.

Alphabet Body
Author Unknown, Book Facsimile Page. Pastimes at Home and School: A Practical Manual of Delsarte Exercises and Elocution. Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co., 1897.

Blake, William. Sketches.
The William Blake Notebook, Letter m (N64).
The William Blake Notebook
,- Letter y (N74).
The William Blake Notebook,- Studies for Letters p,h,x,s,a  (N75).

Cangiullo, Francesco. Book Page. "Letter V" Caffè Concerto - Alfabeto a Sorpresa (Café-Chantant - Unexpected Alphabet), 1919. http://www.colophon.com/gallery/futurism/21.html

Cottingham Robert.  Color lithograph.  An American Alphabet: J   1997.  http://www.tandempress.wisc.edu/tandem/gallery/cottingham/j.htm

Downing Elaine L.  Multimedia Folded Paper. ABC . 1998.     http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/gbw/gallery/abecedarium/abc1.htm

Erte (Romaine de Tirtoff). Lithograph/Serigraph. The Alphabet Suite, "A" , "Z". 1976 .  http://www.erte.com/alpha.html
All Erte Images ©2003 Sevenarts Ltd, London UK

Narbut, Hryhorij. Abetka Letter "M": Illustration for a Ukrainian Alphabet book.
1917. Ohio State History of Art. http://www.history-of-art.ohio-state.edu/UPA/UPAGroup6web/WebPage-Info.00005.html

Filipas, Mark. Image from Art as Letterform (Part 1). http://www.spiritone.com/~filipas/Masquerade/Essays/delta.html

Glier, Mike. Paintings.  Alphabet of Lili,  "Q" . 1991. http://www.williams.edu/Art/glier/alpha/

Johnson Stephen. Pastel and watercolor. Alphabet City,  "A". 1995.

Philips Tom. Painting. The Cloak of Mercury. 1991. http://www.tomphillips.co.uk/painting/cloak/
F.T. Marinetti, Book Cover,Les mots en liberté futuristes (The Futurist words-in-freedom), 1919. http://www.colophon.com/toc.html

 Soffici, Ardengo. Book Cover,BIF¤ZF + 18. Simultaneità e Chimismi lirici (BIF¤ZF + 18. Simultaneity and Lyric Alchemies), 1915. http://www.colophon.com/gallery/futurism/14.html

Scherman Rowland,  Chris Thomson. Photograph. Love Letters - Dancers in Covent Garden, London.  1975. http://www.mindspring.com/~lartigue/LOVE_PAGE.html

Avant -Before Beginning - Commentary Text
Bonamie, Bart. Photograph.
Places of Gathering Space, Community and the Multiplayer Computer Game: A Presentation at the AILA Multiliteracies Confernece - Ghent, Belgium. 2003.

A is Avant - Abstract Signs in Literal Bodies of Text
CollageMichelangelo. Statue David (at Piazza della Signoria, in the Palazzo Vecchio) Florence, 1501 - 1504.
Anonymous. Tattoo Designs. 2002.
Collage digitally altered image, Tattoo David. 2002.
Duchamp, Marcel. Collage L.H.O.O.Q. (Mona Lisa with a Moustache). 1919 & 1930.
http://www.franceweb.fr/zumba/Duchamp/rm.html#lhooq

Johns, Jasper. Lithograph, Figure 7 1969,  National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. www.kunst-edition.de/

a Beginning (B1)
Renoir, Pierre Auguste. Painting, Vintage Festival. 1870s.
Matisse Henri. Painting, Dance. 1910.
Tansey Mark. Painting, Derrida Queries the Man. 1990.
Tintoretto, Jacobi. Painting, The Origin of the Milky Way .1570.

B - Embodied in Textual Usage (B2)
De Chirico, Giorgio. Painting, The Child’s Brain. (approx. 1916 – 1924).
Picasso, Pablo. Painting, Girl Reading at a Table. 1934.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/

Icons  (C1)
Upper Icon: The Virgin Orans Great Panagia. Kiev, 1114.
Lower Icon: The Fiery Ascension of Elijah. Novogrod, 16th Century.
Center: Goncharova, Natalia. Painting. Evangelist . 1913-1923.

Cyborg (C2)1
Rodin, Auguste. Statue, Striding Man. 1878.
Giacometti, Alberto. Statue, Walking Man. 1960.

Coherence (C3)
Titian. Painting, Schiavona. 1510.
Titian. Painting, Woman with Mirror. 1515.

Dear 2D Digital Dimension
Micro Soft Corp. Screen Print, MS FrontPage Website
www.frontpage.microsoft.com: 2002.
Dali, Salvador. Painting, Weaning Furniture Nutrition. 1934.
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/collection/images/weaning_large.jpg.
Archeological object. Cave painting Lascaux, France. Wounded Bison Attacking a Man. 15,000-10,000 BCE.
Young. Photograph. Vaslav Nijinsky in Jeux 1913.
Quoted Text The Digital Manifesto. 2001.
www.potatoland.org Digital Landfill.


Eye See
Goodman Sidney. Painting, The Sightseers. 1991-1993.
Redon, Odilon. Charcoal, Les Yeux Clos Closed Eyes) 1890.
Language Charts, www.Omniglot.com.

Fauna Skins
Bocklin, Arnold. Painting, Faun, Einer, Amsel. 1863.
Gerome Jean. Painting, The Pelt Merchant of Cairo. 1869.
Delacroix Eugene. Painting, Arab Saddling His Horse. 1855.
Dali, Salvador. Painting, Burning Giraffe. 1938. http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/collection/images/weaning_large.jpg
DeMeyer, Adolph. Photograph, Nijinsky in  L'apres-midi D'un Faune, 1912.
Warhol, Andy. Print, Cow Wallpaper. 1960s.

G - Engine of Language
Anonymous. Photograph, Tattoo Foot. 2001.
Anonymous. Photograph, Tattoo Head. 2001.
Chart, Greek Alphabet.
Arabic Manuscript. Brigham Young University, METI Middle Eastern Texts Initiative.
http://meti.byu.edu
Book, The Quran. Sixth Century.
Quarles, Francis. Book - Facsimile Page, Emblemes Divine and Moral - Chapter 10. 1635. http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/quarltoc.htm
Brown, Ford Madox. Painting, John Wycliffe Reading the Bible to John of Gaunt. 1847-1861.
De Chirico, Giorgio. Painting,The Child’s Brain. approx. 1916–1924.
Schwitters Kurt. Collage, Merz - 133. 1921.

Hi
Titian. Painting, Venus d’ Urbino. 1538.
Manet Edouard. Painting, Olympia. 1863.
Klimt, Gustav. Painting, Hygeia. 1907.
Isaacsz, Pieter. Painting, Allegory of Vanity. 1600.

I Imagine
Lichenstein, Roy. Painting, Temple of Apollo Columns. 1964.
De Chirico, Giorgio. Painting, The Disturbing Muses. 1924.

Knowledge
daVinci, Leonardo. Painting, John the Baptist. 1513-1516.
Anonymous. Photograph, Folding Keyboard. 2002.

All L
Text objects.

Malleable Meaning
Escher. M. C. Lithograph, Drawing Hands. 1948.
Manet, Edouard. Painting, Olympia, (detail hand). 1863
Michelangelo. Painting, The Sistine Chapel (Fragment God Creates Adam). 1508-1511.
Modotti, Tina. Photograph, The Puppeteer’s Hands. 1929.

Nude Nature
Matisse, Henri. Painting, Blue Nude. 1907.

Oh
Hondius, Abraham. Painting, Cosmic Allegory. 1625.
Mapplethorp, Robert. Photograph, Ajitto. 1981.

Paper (P1)
Rembrandt. Painting, The Scholar. 1642.
Schwitters, Kurt. Collage, Merz - 133. 1921.
Modotti, Tina. Photograph, Peasants Reading El Machete. 1928.
Anonymous. Painted limestone statue, Egyptian Scribe. Fifth Dynasty.
Picasso, Pablo. Painting. Girl Reading Book at a Table. 1934.
daVinci, Leonardo. Sketchbook, Drawing the Light. 1500s.
Undeciphered artifact. Phaistos Disc from Crete.

Printing - William Blake (P2)
Blake, William. The William Blake Archive. Ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 1996-2002. http://www.blakearchive.org
Print, Daughters of Albion – Frontpiece. 1789 & 1793.
Print, “The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode”, Thomas Gray Poems. 1768.
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/~enec981/dictionary/blake6.html
Print, America, Plate 6. 1793.
Print, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, “Vanity”, Plate 21. 1790-1793.
Painting, Newton. 1795-1805.
Print, Jerusalem, Plate 100. 1804-1820.
Print, Jerusalem, Plate 53. 1804-1820.
p2 Other:
Dorfman Elsa.  Polaroid Photograph, Allen 2,  1986.
 http://elsa.photo.net/Ginsberg.html &  http://elsa.photo.net/alan2.jpg

Unkown. Photograph. Allen Ginsberg Kaddish Cover.  Link Courtesy of Literary Kicks.
Unknown. Book Cover, Sanders, Edward.
1968 A History In Verse.
Van Dyck. Painting,  Self Portrait with Sunflower. 1632.
P2 Quotations:
Blake, William. The Notebook of William Blake: A Photographic and Typographic Facsimile. Ed. David Erdman. Clarendon: Oxford Univ. Press, 1937.
Note, The Notebook of William Blake. N25 transcript 1787-1827.
“I will not Reason & Compare:”. ( Los in Jerusalem, 10.21; p 153). 1804-1820.
Poem, “To the Muses”.  (ed. David Erdman, Poetical Sketches – p 417,13-17).

Poetry (P3)
Macke, August. Painting, Man Reading in the Park. 1914.
Van Gogh, Vincent. Painting, Poets Garden. 1888.
Ward, J.P. From Alphabet to Logos.  Second Aeon Publications, 1970.

Quarles’ Worm
William Blake,  "Emblem 50"  (boy in cage), WB's Notebook,  N77, 1793.
DaVinci, Leonardo. Drawing, Fetus in the Womb. 1510–1512.
Luttichuys, Simon. Painting, Still Life with Skull. 1635-1640.
Quarles, Francis. Facsimile Book Page, Emblemes  Divine and Moral, (p 281-282). 1635.

Recursive
Avery, Milton. Painting, Baby. 1944.
Cangiullo, Francesco. Book Cover Poesia pentagrammata (Poetry on the Staff), 1923. Cover by Enrico Prampolini. http://www.colophon.com/gallery/futurism/18.html
Johns, Jasper. Lithograph, Skin with O'Hara Poem, National Gallery of Art.1963/1965. © Jasper Johns and U.L.A.E./Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
Rembrandt. Painting, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholaus Tulp. 1632.
Rievera, Diego. Painting, Night of the Rich. 1928.
Van Haarlem, Cornelis. Painting, Titianmachia. 1588.
Van Haarlem, Cornelis. Painting, The Fall of the Innocents. 1591.


Script Skins (S1)
Anonymous. Digital Drawing, Skeleton. BodyWorks Program. Cambridge: Softkey Software,  1994.

Anonymous. Photograph. Isadora Duncan Portrait. 1910s.
Blake, William. Print. Skeleton Reanimated, Title Page
"Grave". 1805.   
Burne-Jones, Edward. Painting, The Golden Stairs. 1868.
Carson Don. Photograph, Nudes in Nature - Whirl. 2000.
http://www.doncarsonphoto.com
Escher, M. C. Lithograph, Relativity. 1953.
Muybridge, Eadweard. Photograph, Ascending Stairs. 1884-1885.
Tintoretto. Painting, Leda and the Swan. 1555.
Watteau, Jean-Antoine. Drawing, Flora. 1716.

Sign in a Window (S2)
Freindlander, Lee. Photograph. Boy in the Window. 1962.
Anonymous. Photograph.  Flag USA.

Typography
Screenprint Website, MicroSoft FrontPage Home Page. Microsoft: 2002.
http://www.frontpage.microsoft.com
Modotti, Tina. Photograph, Typewriter. 1928.
Unknown.
Photograph. Nijinsky as Petrouschka. 1912.
Van Gogh, Vincent. Painting, Road with Cypress and Stars. 1890.

Uncovered
Linglebach, Johannes. Painting, Bathing Gypsies. 1670.
Thiebaud. Painting, Man Sitting in a Chair. 1964.
Van Haarlem, Cornelis. Drawing, Study of a Man Undressing. 1597.

Visible Venus
Anonymous. Photograph, Tattooed Figure. 2001.
Anonymous. Digital Drawing, Visible Human, BodyWorks Program.  Cambridge: Softkey Software, 1994.
Canova, Antonio. Statue, Venus Italica. North Carolina Museum of Art. 1811. http://ncartmuseum.org/collections/highlights/european/italian/1600-1815/
Greene, Milton. Photograph, Marilyn Monroe - Ballerina Series 1954.
http://www.archivesmhg.com/ Marilyn image ©2000 Milton H. Greene Archives, Inc.

Ray, Man (Emanuel Rabinovitch). Foto-montage, Le Violon d’Ingres. 1924.

WWW.Wireless
Weston, Edward. Photograph, Nude. 1925.
Wyeth, Andrew. Painting, Christina’s World. 1948.

X
Avery, Milton. Painting, Fencers. 1944.
Chagall, Marc. Painting, White Cruxifiction. 1937.
Degas Edgar. Painting, The Rape. 1868-1869.
Duchamp, Marcel. Collage, Impossible Bed. 1960s.
Freidlander, Lee. Photograph, Boy in the Window. 1962.
Moreau, Gustav. Painting, Hesoid’s Muse. 1887.
Tintoretto. Painting, Origin of the Milky Way. 1578.
Titian. Painting, Venus and Adonis. 1555.
Trevino, Jesse. Painting, La Panderia. 1977.
Van Baburen, Dirk. Painting, Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan. 1623.
Van Haarlem, Cornelius. Painting, The Fall of Man. 1577.

Why
O’Brien, Eamonn. Computer generated graphic, Dodecahedron Matrix. 1998.

Zed
David, Jean Louis. Painting, Death of Socrates. 1787.
Nadar. Photograph, Paris Catacombs. 1861.
Remington, Frederic. Painting, Ridden Down. 1905.

Reprise
Collage digitally altered image, Hand to Mouse. 2002
Kerry John Andrews, Lithograph, Red Earth to Jasper Johns. 2001.
Escher. M. C. Lithograph, Drawing Hands. 1948.
Anonymous. Photograph. Hand-held mouse device. 2000.
Johns, Jasper. Lithograph. Hands.

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

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