{"product_id":"catherine-taylor-image-text-music","title":"Catherine Taylor: Image Text Music","description":"\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eImage Text Music\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e by writer and editor Catherine Taylor is a series of textual and photographic essays that explore our encounters with the place where the visual meets the verbal. Taylor riffs on and subverts Roland Barthes’ classic 1977 essay collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eImage Music Text\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, using his title as playful points of departure for her thinking about the nature of image-text works and the music that might be made at their intersection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThese meditative and analytical essays pose vital questions about the psychological and political possibilities for image-text works. Taylor rejects overarching statements about medium or genre in favour of observations of the particular to reveal broader ways of reading that are at once familiar and disorientating.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe reflections in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eImage Text Music\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e are at once critical and celebratory, dystopian and utopian, investigative and contemplative, didactic and dreamlike. They are visions of visions of the world that ultimately ask: as we shuttle between linguistic and visual modes of meaning-making, what is the purpose of reinventing forms if not to reinvent ways of living?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFeaturing artwork by \u003cem\u003eLaia Abril, Lucas Blalock, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Tony Cokes, Gustave Courbet, Sara Cwynar, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Francisco Goya, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Whitney Hubbs, Justine Kurland, Édouard Manet, Pietro Monaco, Nicholas Muellner, Ahndraya Parlato, Adrian Piper, Man Ray, Martha Rosler, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Wolfgang Tillmans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCatherine Taylor (born 1964) received a BA from the College Scholar Program at Cornell University, studied Classics at Somerville College at the University of Oxford, and earned a PhD in English from Duke University. The author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eYou, Me, and the Violence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eApart\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGiving Birth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, she is also a founding editor of Essay Press, and associate professor in writing and co-director of the Image Text MFA at Ithaca College and of ITI Press.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555645165625,"sku":"210000002895","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/annotation-2024-03-20-144647.jpg?v=1790279625","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/catherine-taylor-image-text-music","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}