Word & Image (Q3286)
15 credits, Level 5
Autumn teaching
Word and Image is a cross-period, interdisciplinary module rooted in materiality (the physical properties of a cultural artefact), theory, history, and the archive.
Through research and writing practice, we will investigate ways that writing (poetry, fiction, theoretical texts, captions, and titles) can address itself to images.
We will explore visual arts that take literature for their inspiration: illustrations, history paintings, and visual adaptations of textual narratives.
We will examine cases in which word and image are composed together as a single work in, for example, concrete poetry, illuminated books, and graphic narratives.
Authors and artists studied may include Catherine Anyango, William Blake, Joseph Conrad, the Pre Raphaelites, and Nick Sousanis, and we will trace such key themes as framing, reproducing, and silencing through their work.
The module is suitable for students new to the visual arts as well as those with prior knowledge.