Sweeter Than Honey - A Panorama of Written Art

The Written Art Collection is dedicated to artistic positions that combine language, writing and image. Starting with the Art Informel of the 1950s and gestural abstraction, the more than 100 works on display demonstrate the continuity of the significance of written art across generations and cultures: Artists invent imaginative alphabets and sign languages, write poems, quote from literature, translate thoughts and conversations into spray-painted, graphic, gestural or embroidered messages. The catalogue is published on the occasion of the special exhibition of the same name and explores the phenomenon of writing and images with contributions on the history of written art, its political potential and current perspectives on calligraphy and typography.

Summary

The Written Art Collection is dedicated to artistic positions that combine language, writing and image. Starting with the Art Informel of the 1950s and gestural abstraction, the more than 100 works on display demonstrate the continuity of the significance of written art across generations and cultures: Artists invent imaginative alphabets and sign languages, write poems, quote from literature, translate thoughts and conversations into spray-painted, graphic, gestural or embroidered messages. The catalogue is published on the occasion of the special exhibition of the same name and explores the phenomenon of writing and images with contributions on the history of written art, its political potential and current perspectives on calligraphy and typography.

Product details

• Authors: Madeleine Freund, Oliver Kase, Thomas Kellein
• Assisted by: Madeleine Freund (Editor), Kase (Editor), Oliver Kase (Editor)
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 24.12.2025
• EAN: 9783775761277
• ISBN: 978-3-7757-6127-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Illustrations: 150 Abb.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Fotografie, Abstrakte Kunst, Illustration, USA, München, Grafikdesign, Bayern, Malerei und Gemälde, Typografie und Schrift, Lyrik, Poesie, Europe, Language, Kalligrafie und Handschrift, color photography, Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, signs, visual art, Middle East, Catalog, graphic arts, graphics, Zeichnen und Zeichnungen, Andere grafische oder visuelle Kunstformen, art collections, Art Collection, Visual Language, Art Collectors, abstract painting, Archives and Collections, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Oevre Catalog, language in art