Lacunas entre linguagens: a leitura de obras de arte visuais e verbais

Abstract

This dissertation reflects upon artworks that use visual language and verbal language as complementary things, as opposed to a hierarchical relation between them. Considering the works of authors such as G. E. Lessing, Michel Foucault and W. J. T. Mitchell, a landscape of the different relations between images and words in the artfield throughout the course of history is made, as well as how these conceptions have affected and still affect art production and our perception of it. Driving this content are some examples of visual artists and writers, such as Taryn Simon and Cecilia Vicuña, connecting works that have words and images in order to, at last, reflect about the production of brazilian artist Leila Danziger, considering the way she explores the dialogue between verbal and visual languages in her own production.