When Words Fail
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4300532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosalind Krau, Rosalind Krauss (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Pages | 91 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | October (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/778365 |
| OpenAlex | W2316089287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Words was the slogan used as the title of a three-day colloquium to celebrate, document, and-presumably-analyze the rise of photographic practice in Weimar Germany.1 With this phrase, the colloquium's organizers echoed the declarations pronounced so frequently by a host of German artists, intellectuals, and propagandists: declarations to the effect that language was about to be eclipsed by vision. Not only do we think of MoholyNagy's dictum that the illiterate of the future would not be the man unable to read, but the one who could not take a photograph; we also hear Johannes Molzahn intoning, The photograph will be one of the most effective weapons against intellectualization, against the mechanization of the spirit. Forget reading! See! That will be the motto of education. Forget reading! See! That will be the essential policy of newspapers. When Words Fail is, we could say, a slant rhyme on the notion Forget reading! See! Thus it is very curious that this pronouncement of the antiverbal
Art · German · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Newspaper · Phrase · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Rhyme · Slogan · Sociology · Visual arts · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |