TOP
ROW
01 Harpo
Marx in an advertisement for Smirnoff's Vodka, Sept 1961
02 graphic
representation an article on Hiccups, from LOOK magazine
May 1954,
03 from
Leslie Wood, The Story of Little Red Engine, Faber and
Faber undated c1950
04 05 Gerard
Hoffnung, The imaging of a Snore from Lilliput Magazine
....And Things that go hrr-hrr-hrr in the Night, September 1948. 3 cms
square both
MIDDLE
ROW
01 American
insurance advertisement, c1948
02 Joshua
Steele, An essay towards establishing the melody and measure of
speech to be expressed and perpetuated by peculiar symbols, London,
1775.
03 Athanasius
Kircher, Musurgia universalis sive ars magna, Corbelletti,
Rome, 2 vols., 1650. Kircher of all the encyclopaedists and polymaths
seems to have found the most compelling images to communicate his scientific
perceptions. Here is a diagram of the reflective properties of sound in
a section on acoustics. another engraving in Kircher's book
04 the cartoon
character, Hazel the Maid, by Ted Key with terrific flourish.
(1956 month unknown)
BOTTOM
ROW
01 John
Vernon Lord, illustration to The Nonsense Verse of Edward Lear,
Cape, London 1984,
There was a Young Lady of Russia,
Who screamed so that no one could hush her;
Her screams were so extreme, no one heard such a scream,
As was screamed by that lady of Russia.
02 (beneath)
Federico Castellan's painting of Deafness, c1948, reproduced
from LOOK magazine.
03 Franchinus
Gafurius Theorica Musice published in Milan in 1492
04 The Street Cries of London; never really persuasive
as depictions of sound, but a clear anthology of sounds as heard on London
streets.
To render noise visually has always been seen as the province of the comic
book artist, but it also has a noble tradition in the Visual Arts, from
Ingres' invocation of harp strings and dribbling water, to the outrageous
excesses of the Futurist Movement.
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