Beyond Words: Faulkner Defining and Defying Print Through Pictures
Location
Nutt Auditorium
Start Date
19-7-2015 4:00 PM
Description
Faulkner used pictures to tell stories and words to make pictures. These startling paintings are articulated through his development of symbolic vocabularies. In paradox, Faulkner’s hyper-real constructions use words to go beyond words, portraying the practical through the surreal and abstract. Drawing on Faulkner’s drawings and fiction, this talk considers Faulkner’s brain. Using Cézanne and neuroaesthetics, I look at Faulkner’s defining and defying of print culture, a feat that inspired and provoked art’s “Abstract Expressionism.” In complex simplicity, Faulkner and de Kooning left arrows pointing to their desire to be read by us, their readers fated to read beyond the words.
Relational Format
Conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Waid, Candace, "Beyond Words: Faulkner Defining and Defying Print Through Pictures" (2015). Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. 3.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fy/2015/schedule/3
Beyond Words: Faulkner Defining and Defying Print Through Pictures
Nutt Auditorium
Faulkner used pictures to tell stories and words to make pictures. These startling paintings are articulated through his development of symbolic vocabularies. In paradox, Faulkner’s hyper-real constructions use words to go beyond words, portraying the practical through the surreal and abstract. Drawing on Faulkner’s drawings and fiction, this talk considers Faulkner’s brain. Using Cézanne and neuroaesthetics, I look at Faulkner’s defining and defying of print culture, a feat that inspired and provoked art’s “Abstract Expressionism.” In complex simplicity, Faulkner and de Kooning left arrows pointing to their desire to be read by us, their readers fated to read beyond the words.