Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices

Mixed Messages presents and interrogates ten distinct moments from the arts of nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century America where visual and verbal forms blend and clash. Charting correspondences concerned with the expression and meaning of human experience, this volume moves beyond standard interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to consider the written and visual artwork in embodied, cognitive, and contextual terms.

Offering a genuinely interdisciplinary contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, avant-garde studies, word-image relations, and literary studies, Mixed Messages takes in architecture, notebooks, poetry, painting, conceptual art, contemporary art, comic books, photographs and installations, ending with a speculative conclusion on the role of the body in the experience of digital mixed media. Each of the ten case studies explores the juxtaposition of visual and verbal forms in a manner that moves away from treating verbal and visual symbols as operating in binary or oppositional systems, and towards a consideration of mixed media, multi-media and intermedia work as brought together in acts of creation, exhibition, reading, viewing, and immersion. The collection advances research into embodiment theory, affect, pragmatist aesthetics, as well as into the continuing legacy of romanticism and of dada, conceptual art and surrealism in an American context.

Section of Sign Painting Department

A section of the Sign Painting Department is shown with students working at tables. A variety of signs can be seen hanging around the room including one for a Holiday Inn, an American Meat Market, and one for a Laundrette. Black and white photograph with slight damage from a tear.

Un receuil: containing painting, penmanship, algebra and pieces selected from various authors in prose and verse, with a few pieces in French with their translation / by Phebe Folger of Nantucket : manuscript, 1797-1806

Written mostly in a copperplate hand in black ink, and illustrated with watercolor drawings.

Professor David Huntington with FE Church painting "Syria by the Sea"

Huntington was a respected scholar of American painter Frederick Edwin Church

Five centuries of marine painting : twenty-third loan exhibition of old masters [at] the Detroit Institute of Arts, March 6 through April 5, 1942.

"The Flemish, Dutch, English, French and Italian sections of the catalogue were prepared by W.R. Valentiner; the American section by Francis W. Robinson."

Catalogue of a collection of oil paintings and water-color drawings by American and European artists, and of Oriental art objects, belonging to T. E. Waggaman.

Mode of access: Internet.

Methods and techniques for gouache painting.

Mode of access: Internet.

Through the American landscape,

Map on lining-papers.

Paintings by the great Dutch masters of the seventeenth century; loan exhibition in aid of the Queen Wilhelmina fund and the American women's voluntary services.

Mode of access: Internet.

Historical descriptive and critical catalogue of the works of American artists in collection of Herbert L. Pratt, Glen Cove, L.I.,

Mode of access: Internet.

A collection of old paintings by English and continental masters from London and other sources with an unusual number of early American portraits.

Mode of access: Internet.

Illustrated catalogue of the remarkable and widely known collection of early American and British portraits /

Mode of access: Internet.

De luxe illustrated catalogue of early American portraits collected by Mr. Thomas B. Clarke,

Mode of access: Internet.