| ZYZZYVA the journal of west coast writers & artists |
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Spring 2009 • #85  |
EDITOR'S NOTE Digital screens mash up words and pictures and videos and sound and links (to everything). The printed page segregates elements, putting them into their linear, orthogonal, rightful places. In this issue, we explore the spectrum of textimage, instances in which text and image collide and collude on the page-from the artist playing with that basic literary unit, the letter, to the writer sketching and doodling in his notebook. Our take is not scholarly, but deliberately ecumenical, using examples from our pages over the past quarter century. We have crammed our perps into categories that are arbitrary and a bit cutesy-to help you see/read the many variations on our theme. Textimage began in the caves and proceeded through hieroglyphics; inscriptions on plinths, tombs...and scrolls; illuminated manuscripts; the golden words of quattrocento Annunciations; Goya, Blake, Mallarmé; Peto, Harnett, Haberle (American trompe l'oeil); Cubist collage and other Modernisms; WPA photos of signage; concrete poetry; Pop (Rivers, Indiana, Ruscha, Wiley); Donald Barthelme; Robert Smithson; Conceptual Art; graffiti (Basquiat); graphic novels.... These days, textimage is all over the place. In the academy, see, for example, the Avant Writing Collection at Ohio State...and the University of Pennsylvania's (under construction) Visual Poetry: A Web Guide. And “Lots of Things Like This,” in last spring's McSweeney's 27. And last fall's The Journal of Artists' Books: “On the Intersections of Experimental Literature & Artists' Books.” And Geof Huth's selection of twelve “visual poems” in last November's Poetry. And January's symposium, “Untitled New York: Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing,” organized by Matias Viegener and Christine Wertheim of CalArts. Many thanks to the Zellerbach Family Fund and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation for their support of this 25th-anniversary-year project. H.J. P.S.: I've decided not to retire at the end of the year after all; in short, I decided I love ZYZZYVA too much to jump ship. |
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| BELLES LETTRES Tauba Auerbach, 27; Barrett Watten, 28; Angela Anderson, 29; Sumner Stone, 30-32; Michael S. Bell, 33; Bill Kane, 34; Stan Washburn, 35; Peter Shelton, 36; Richard Diebenkorn, 37; Masashi Matsumoto, 38; Georgia Deaver, 39; Jenny Hunter Groat, 40-41; Thomas Ingmire, 42; Mark Van Stone, 43; Catherine Yi-yu Cho Woo, 44; Christopher Brown, 45 SCRIBBLE SCRABBLE Ann Chamberlain, 47; Tom Fowler, 48-50; Claudia Goulette, 51; John McNally 52; Joseph Biel, 53; Veronica De Jesus, 54; Evan Holloway, 55 GRAPHIC LANGUAGE Kaz Maslanka, 57; Patrick P. Hartigan, 58; Calvin Keh-Wen Yang, 59; James Francis, 60; M.P. Klier, 61; Karl Kempton, 62; Michael McClure, 63; Julie Watters, 64; Heather Angier, 65; Brian Wasson, 66; Allen Ruppersberg, 67; Cliff Benjamin, 68; Karen Gegax Campbell, 69 TEXTRAITS William T. Wiley, 71; Chris Cobb, 72; Joseph Goldyne, 73; Lynn Hershman, 74; Roy Ragle, 75; Brad Robinson, 76; Michael Gregory, 77; Manuel Ocampo, 78; Benjamin Weissman, 79; Tim Collins & Reiko Goto, 80; Gayle Tanaka, 81-83 SLOGANEERING Rupert Garcia, 85; Robert Arneson, 86; Jonathan Borofsky, 87; Nicholas Lambert, 88; Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 89; Mark Bulwinkle, 90; Jenny Balisk, 91; Tucker Nichols, 92; Michael Coughlan, 93; Sheila Young Pell, 94; John Gutmann, 95; Raymond Pettibon, 96; Travis Somerville, 97; Richard A. Lou, Robert J. Sanchez & Jim Elliott, 98-99 DIAGRAMMARS Marcia Friedman, 101; Chris Burden, 102; Greg Colson, 103; Jennifer Arin, 104-105; Millie Wilson, 106; Joey Shimoda, 107; Andy Singer, 108-109; Harry Polkinhorn, 110; Rory Devine, 111 ARCHITEXTURE Neal Schwartz, 113; Robert Herman, 114-115; Wes Jones, 116-119; Christopher Alexander, 120-121; David Raymond Hecht, 122-123 GRAFICTION Katherine Aoki, 125-127; Cathryn Alpert & Dick Sanders, 128-129; Mia C. Keyes, 130-131; Paul Madonna, 132-133; Aimee Bender, 134-135; Artemio Rodriguez, 136-139; David Levi Strauss, 140-141 DOCUGRAPHICS Bryan Bailey, 143; Sophie & Lowell Darling, 144-145; Jim Goldberg, 146-147; Donald Schenker, 148; David Ireland, 149; Christopher Stinehour, 150-151; Jane Wolff, 152-155 TRANSTRATIONS Gustavo Ramos Rivera & Michael Dunev, 157; Dennis Cunningham, 158; Sandow Birk, 159-161 PICTURE BOOKS Susan Seubert, 163; Derek Pell, 164; Alastair Johnston, 165; Rosana Castrillo Diaz, 166; Ed Ruscha, 167; Ruth Asawa, 168; Matt Duffin, 169 THE ARTIST'S SKETCHBOOK John Beech, 170-171 THE WRITER'S NOTEBOOK Sherman Alexie, 172-175 COVER Enrique Chagoya, Don't Follow Me, I am Lost Too, 2008 |
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