Rosetta Stone (top), with its three tiers of writing (hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic) and eight hieroglyphs with the sounds they represent (bottom). From the "Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, and Demotic Writing" section of the "Art of...
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; History; Political issues; Apartheid; Imperialism; Social classes; War; War casualties; Graves; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Crosses; Cemeteries; Monuments & memorials; Soldiers; Military personnel; Military...
"Terry Atkinson, like David Hockney, came from a working-class background in Yorkshire, England. However, his affiliations when he eventually moved to London were with Conceptualism rather than Pop. Whilst Conceptualism had been international...
Diagrams; Drawings; Paintings; Acrylic paintings; History; Political issues; Apartheid; Imperialism; Social classes; War; War casualties; Graves; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Cemeteries; Monuments & memorials; Soldiers; Military personnel;...
"Terry Atkinson, like David Hockney, came from a working-class background in Yorkshire, England. However, his affiliations when he eventually moved to London were with Conceptualism rather than Pop. Whilst Conceptualism had been international...
Prints; Broadsides; Broadsides; Advertisements; Advertising; Language; Communication; Communication devices; Inscriptions; Lettering (Layout features); Punctuation; Question marks
"Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s,...
Posters; Satires (Visual works); Inscriptions; Lettering (Layout features); Punctuation; Numerals; Language; Publicity; Communication; Political issues; Social aspects; Social classes; Economic & social conditions; Social justice; Social life;...
"In a darkened room, Dine, acting the part of 'car' in a silver-sprayed cap and raincoat, swerved to avoid 'hits' from the raking 'headlights' attached to fellow performers. The lights went on and off amid clatterings and amplified collision...
From the "Cuneiform Writing" section of the "Art of the Ancient Near East" chapter (Chapter 2). Time periods shown are: pictograph, c. 3100 BCE; early cuneiform sign, c. 2400 BCE; later cuneiform sign, c. 700 BCE. Examples shown...