TOTAL EXPANSION OF THE LETTER

At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists . In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark offers a provocative history of this linguistic turn, centered on t he radical doubt about the social function of language that defined the avant-garde movements. Major cubists and Dadaists?including Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and Tristan Tzara?appropriated bureaucratic paperwork, newspapers, popular songs, and advertisements, only to re...[Read more]