Other writings
Gestures, movements, and inscriptions in contemporary art and poetry.

This work examines the artistic output of a select group of contemporary artists, poets, and calligraphers who grappled with the problem of illegibility in art with particular acuity and sensitivity: Cy Twombly, Henri Michaux, Inoue Yuichi, Mirtha Dermisache, and Mira Schendel. Despite the artists' notable contextual and geographical distance—United States, France, Japan, Argentina, and Brazil—this analysis reveals points of convergence, resonances that invite us to perceive in them a shared way of exploring and conceiving writing. Of indispensable interest to those seeking to observe the possible and impossible relationships between visualities and texts, this book will also appeal to those who explore the production and transmission of meaning beyond the semantic order and the illuminated zone of verbal language.