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Lindisfarne Gospels, fol. 29 (Cotton MS, Nero D.IV)
Artist / Origin Attr. to Bishop Eadfrith of Lindisfarne (698–721), Northumbria (England)
Region: Europe
Date ca. 680–720
Period: 500 CE – 1000 CE
Material Ink, pigments and gold on vellum
Medium: Calligraphy, Illumination, and Illustrated Books
Dimensions H: 13 ½ in. (34.2 cm.), W: 9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.)
Location The British Library, London, UK
Credit Courtesy of HIP/Art Resource, NY
OOF
Artist / Origin: Ed Ruscha (American, b. 1937)
Region: North America
Date: 1962, reworked 1963
Period: 1900 CE – 2010 CE
Material: Oil on canvas
Medium: Painting
Dimensions: H: 71 ½ in. (181.6 cm.), W: 67 in. (170.1 cm.)
Location: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Credit: © Ed Ruscha. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photo courtesy of Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY
There are many reasons for putting words in art and many reasons for adorning words. Sometimes, the integration of word and art is so complete that it is difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. Works like the Lindisfarne Gospels and Ed Ruscha’s Oof make us consider whether there is a line between image and text at all. Indeed, they make us question why we make the distinction in the first place.