http://lacma.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/cursive-and-art/ Fri, 17 May 2013 06:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://lacma.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/cursive-and-art/#comment-363 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:39:57 +0000 http://lacma.wordpress.com/?p=2910#comment-363 Is it possible that we’ll still be able to recognize, register and understand cursive in places like artwork – the letters, after all, resemble block text, but are only changed formally so that one might gracefully move from one to the next when composing a word or sentence. It’s not as if the “C” in Magritte’s work above is illegible to someone who knows the letter but might not know cursive. It makes me wonder if hieroglyphics had been rendered out-dated by an ancient computer, would the hieroglyphics been recognizable still to someone who knew the mark but not how to write it? Provocative post indeed….

]]> http://lacma.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/cursive-and-art/#comment-358 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:38:13 +0000 http://lacma.wordpress.com/?p=2910#comment-358 Very interesting thoughts on the perception of language and visual images! Thank you for this…I suspect that the perception of type in artwork would not only be affected by the less frequent use of the mannade mark by the viewer, but also the ways that visually designed type is used and perceived. Fonts in cursive form have and will continue to exist ; it seems like the connotations of that form will be more lasting than how the form was originally made. Very much like how a record needle scratching on an LP is still understood as meaning a full stop in a crowded room, even if the young audience has no idea what a record looks like!

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