Poetry of The Image: Books of Dialogue.
This body of work arises from practice-led research into the relationship between poems and images in an artist’s book, and includes: Blackrock Sequence (screen-printed artist’s book), Blackrock Sequence: a creative dialogue between an artist and a poet (Journal Article) and Fourteen Poems by C.P. Cavafy (Journal Article)
- Submitting institution
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Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 916
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, Ireland
- Open access status
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- Month of production
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- Year of production
- 2017
- URL
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https://figshare.com/s/cc6828c52cff3cd0e12c
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This body of work arises from practice-led research into the relationship between poems and images in an artist’s book.
This work draws on Peyré’s term “book of dialogue”, which describes certain livres d’artiste (finely printed books) arising
from a collaboration between artists and poets. In adopting a ‘dialogic approach’ to my own practice and drawing on ideas
from literary narrative and multimodal non-narrative books, I was hoping to develop a new way of understanding text and
image relationships through my practice.
Underpinning this was a literature review of existing paradigms for text and image. The lack of detailed analysis of text and
image relationships in livres d’artiste led me to undertake and publish the first systematic analysis of the relationship
between poems and images in Hockney and Stangos’ 1967 book Fourteen Poems by C.P. Cavafy.
The term “book of dialogue” also led me to explore Bakhtin’s ideas of dialogue and whether narrative “polyphony” from the
novel might be applicable to a non-narrative book of poems and images.
The practice-led research follows Schön’s iterative approach and was based on two cycles of primary research on location in
Dublin, development through studio-practice and evaluation. The research has been disseminated through an artist’s book, Blackrock Sequence, and two peer-reviewed journal articles.
Blackrock Sequence won the 2018 World Illustration Award and has been purchased by a number of leading public collections of artists’ books in the UK, Europe and USA.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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