Writing by Drawing : When Language Seeks Its Other Clothing This book features beautifully haunting

This book features beautifully haunting images of portrait backgrounds absent of their subjects

Germano Celant

and Sadek Rahim

it is evident how the rhetorics of painting remain omnipresent

Writing by Drawing : When Language Seeks Its Other Clothing This book features beautifully hauntingLooking at the rich tradition of art, from the early 20th century to the present, in which writing sheds its communicative function and pursues the inarticulable, Writing by Drawing explores the fertile tension between the semantic and the uncharted territory of automatism, mark making and scribbles the "asemic." 200 colour illustrations Hardcover 288 pages Dimensions: 20 x 21 x 3. 3 cm ISBN: 9788857243504 Publisher: Skira Published Nov 05, 2020