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Informationen zum Autor Ludmilla Jordanova is Emeritus Professor of History and Visual Culture at Durham University, UK. She is also the author of History in Practice, 3rd Edition (Bloomsbury, 2019). Florence Grant holds a PhD in History from King's College London and is currently an independent writer and editor based in Western North Carolina, USA. Klappentext Why do we put bookplates in books in our personal libraries? Why do we keep photographs? How do popular illustrated journals and magazines function? Bringing together a fascinatingly diverse yet closely related group of subjects, Where Words and Images Meet encourages us to think about all this and much, much more: it asks us to rethink what we know about words and images and how they interact.From 19th Century frontispieces to Soviet photo scrapbooks, from the relationships between portraits and biographies to museum labels, the book's richly illustrated chapters by established scholars in a range of interrelated fields open up historically specific relationships between word and image to collective examination and fruitful analysis. The chapters deliberately foreground both topics that have previously been overlooked as well as disciplinary approaches outside those most familiarly associated with word and image, to offer a stimulating and carefully developed framework to look at the relationship afresh. Where Words and Images Meet opens up for analysis and reflection the forms of attention, practices, skills and assumptions that underlie visual interpretation and meaning-making in the writing of history. By bringing the features of the materials we read and look at into focus, we can grasp more effectively the complex interrelationships involved, and enhance our practice and understanding. Vorwort Encouraging us to rethink what we know about words and images and how they interact, this book highlights the complex relationship between ways of looking and reading. Zusammenfassung Bringing together a fascinatingly diverse yet closely related group of subjects, Where Words and Images Meet asks us to rethink what we know about words and images and how they interact. From 19th-century frontispieces to Soviet photo albums, from the relationships between portraits and biographies to museum labels, the book's richly illustrated chapters open up historically specific connections between word and image to collective examination and fruitful analysis. Written by both established and emerging scholars in a range of interrelated fields, the chapters deliberately foreground previously overlooked topics as well as unfamiliar disciplinary approaches, to offer a stimulating and carefully developed framework for looking at these ubiquitous phenomena afresh. Where Words and Images Meet opens up for analysis and reflection the forms of attention, practices, skills and assumptions that underlie visual interpretation and meaning-making in the writing of history. By bringing the features of the materials we read and look at into focus, we can grasp more effectively the complex interrelationships involved, and enhance our practice and understanding. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of PlatesList of IllustrationsList of ContributorsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Identifying with Books Discussion1. Fronts Matter: The Role of the Authorial Frontispiece in Germaine de Staël’s Corinne: or, Italy (Seren Nolan, Durham University, UK)2. Othering the Ex-Libris: Israel Solomons and the Invention of the Jewish Bookplate (Tom Stammers, Durham University, UK)Bridge Part II. Representing Authority Discussion3. Picturing Criminal Law in Old Regime France (Tom Hamilton, Durham University, UK)4. Word and Image in Popular Science (Joseph D. Martin, Durham University, UK)Bridge Part III. Order and Disorder Discussion5. Museum Labels: Word and Object on ...
