On a 20th Century Codex: The Flight into Egypt

Tomi S. Melka

DOI:10.1080/23796529.2014.11674718

Corpus ID: 192917562

On a 20th Century Codex: The Flight into Egypt

@article{Melka2014OnA2,
  title={On a 20th Century Codex: The Flight into Egypt},
  author={Tomi S. Melka},
  journal={Journal of Visual Literacy},
  year={2014},
  volume={33},
  pages={75 - 96}
}

Tomi S. Melka

Published 2014

Art

Journal of Visual Literacy

Abstract As we examine an illustrated modern book, a number of phenomena featuring the interrelation of script-like and pictorial elements draw the attention. The inventive art of Timothy C. Ely strikes even an untrained eye with his great and fantastic explorations of real and out-of-this-world sceneries, largely saturated with cryptic symbols, atlas-related features and marks of constructed scripts. The Elyan scripts, unrestricted to a cast of scribes, convert T. C. Ely into the only known… CONTINUE READING

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