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Image - Text - Sound

Modern, and especially contemporary artists, often strived to integrate different expressions, experiences and sensations in their works. Cubists already inserted elements of typography into paintings, and many performances included some form of sound expression. The relationships between the elements of image, sound and text in works of art were very diverse and numerous. Also interesting are the parallels, influences and connections between different artistic fields: music and art or art and literature.

The ALU Library has several publications dealing with the relationship between image, sound and text. In addition to those that explore and show the connections between the arts in certain periods, through the presentation of works that were created in collaboration between authors from different fields or works in which the authors united various elements of artistic expression, to semiological analyses and essays on individual works.

Selected titles:

  • Miško Šuvaković: Scenes of Language / The Role of Text in Fine Arts 1920 – 1990, Belgrade 1989
  • Branka Stipančić (ed.): Words and Images, Zagreb, 1995.

Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux: Twentieth-Century Poetry and the Visual Arts, Cambridge University Press; NY 2011

  • Dorotea Jendrić, Irena Frantal: Art Book, Zagreb, ULUPUH, 2015.
  • Johanna Drucker: The Century of Artists Books, New York 2004.
  • Ana Peraica (introduction): 46th Zagreb Salon of Applied Arts and Design: Manuscripts of the New Age, Zagreb 2011
  • Jasna Jakšić: NOarhiv: 10 Reasons for an Open Digital Archive of Conceptual and Neo-Avant-Garde Art, Zagreb, 2012
  • Ofra Amihay: Text and the City / Text in Croatian Urban Photography from the 1930s to the Present, Zagreb 2015.
  • Douglas Kahn: Noise Water Meat / A History of Sound in the Arts, MIT Press, Cambridge (MASS), 2001.
  • Caleb Kelly (ed.): Sound, MIT Press, Cambridge (MASS), 2011.
  • Marcel Bačić: Carmina figurata / Art Reading of Music, Zagreb 2004
  • Aniruddh D. Patel: Music, Language and the Brain, Oxford University Press., NY, 2008.
  • Edward Lockspeiser: Music and Painting: A Study in Comparative Ideas from Turner to Schoenberg, New York 1973.
  • Peter Vergo: The Music of Painting: Music, Modernism and the Visual Arts from the Romantics to John Cage, Phaidon Press; 2010.
  • Simon Morley: Writting on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern ART, London; Thames & Hudson 2003.