On a 20th Century Codex: The Flight into Egypt
| Autor: | Tomi S. Melka |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Visual Literacy. 33:75-96 |
| ISSN: | 2379-6529 1051-144X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23796529.2014.11674718 |
| Popis: | As we examine an illustrated modern book, a number of phenomena featuring the interrelation of script-like and pictorial elements draw the attention. The inventive art of Timothy C. Ely strikes even an untrained eye with his great and fantastic explorations of real and out-of-this-world sceneries, largely saturated with cryptic symbols, atlas-related features and marks of constructed scripts. The Elyan scripts, unrestricted to a cast of scribes, convert T. C. Ely into the only known scribe, creator and cognizant of these asemic expressions. This contemporary illuminator has created highly personal books, similar to the codices of early and later Middle Ages, reviving and popularizing the tradition. In terms of cognition, analysis is deemed appealing as shared and different aspects between genuine scripts and invented ones are identified. We can also hypothesize on The Flight into Egypt (FiE) as an indication of the to-come future, where written, visual, and aural platforms cross boundaries by merg... |
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