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Henri Michaux is both a recognised poet and visual artist, arguably one of the greatest ‘double artists’ of the twentieth century. This book presents the first detailed examination of a particular interdisciplinary aspect of his production, namely, the innovative experimentation with signs contained in four works: Mouvements, Par la voie des rythmes, Saisir and Par des traits . Questions arise concerning their literary and visual status as, in their attempt to render interior rhythm and dynamism, they occupy an interstitial space between writing and drawing, between the book and the canvas, between the Western alphabet and Chinese characters. This study addresses these questions by analysing the conception, production and reception of Michaux’s signs and the literary and artistic contexts in which they were produced.

Semiotics --- Michaux, Henri --- Picture-writing. --- Ideography --- Pictographs --- Pictography --- Archaeology --- Hieroglyphics --- Inscriptions --- Writing --- Michaux, H. --- Misho, Anri, --- Misho, Henri, --- Michaux, Henry, --- Picture-writing --- Michaux, Henri, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Australia has one of the largest inventories of rock art in the world with pictographs and petroglyphs found almost anywhere that has suitable rock surfaces – in rock shelters and caves, on boulders and rock platforms. First Nations people have been marking these places with figurative imagery, abstract designs, stencils and prints for tens of thousands of years, often engaging with earlier rock markings. The art reflects and expresses changing experiences within landscapes over time, spirituality, history, law and lore, as well as relationships between individuals and groups of people, plants, animals, land and Ancestral Beings that are said to have created the world, including some rock art. Since the late 1700s, people arriving in Australia have been fascinated with the rock art they encountered, with detailed studies commencing in the late 1800s. Through the 1900s an impressive body of research on Australian rock art was undertaken, with dedicated academic study using archaeological methods employed since the late 1940s. Since then, Australian rock art has been researched from various perspectives, including that of Traditional Owners, custodians and other community members. Through the 1900s, there was also growing interest in Australian rock art from researchers across the globe, leading many to visit or migrate to Australia to undertake rock art research. In this volume, the varied histories of Australian rock art research from different parts of the country are explored not only in terms of key researchers, developments and changes over time, but also the crucial role of First Nations people themselves in investigations of this key component of their living heritage.

Australasian & Pacific history --- Archaeology --- rock art --- Australian rock art --- Australia --- rock art research --- First Nations people --- Petroglyphs --- Picture-writing --- Research --- Carvings, Rock --- Engravings, Rock --- Rock carvings --- Rock engravings --- Rock inscriptions --- Stone inscriptions --- Inscriptions --- Rock paintings --- Ideography --- Pictographs --- Pictography --- Hieroglyphics --- Writing

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Aztecs --- Human sacrifice --- Picture-writing --- Ideography --- Pictographs --- Pictography --- Archaeology --- Hieroglyphics --- Inscriptions --- Writing --- Sacrifice, Human --- Sacrifice --- Aztec Indians --- Azteca Indians --- Aztecan Indians --- Mexica Indians --- Tenocha Indians --- Indians of Mexico --- Nahuas --- Historiography --- Religion --- Rites and ceremonies --- Codex Borbonicus. --- Codice Borbónico --- Códice del Palais Bourbon --- Libro del ciuacoatl --- Ritual murder

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Écriture --- Écriture pictographique --- Congrès. --- Poor --- Pauvres --- Writing --- Picture-writing --- Congresses --- -Writing --- -Chirography --- Handwriting --- Language and languages --- Ciphers --- Penmanship --- Ideography --- Pictographs --- Pictography --- Archaeology --- Hieroglyphics --- Inscriptions --- -Congresses --- Écriture --- Écriture pictographique --- Congrès. --- Ecriture pictographique --- Aesthetics --- Visual communication --- Ecriture --- Esthétique --- Communication visuelle --- -Ideography --- Chirography --- -Archaeology --- Poor - France

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In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now known as codices, and the knowledge itself was encoded into pictographs. Eight codices have survived from the Mixtec peoples of ancient Oaxaca, Mexico; a part of one of them, the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, is the subject of this book. As a group, the Mixtec codices contain the longest detailed histories and royal genealogies known for any indigenous people in the western hemisphere. The Codex Zouche-Nuttall offers a unique window into how the Mixtecs themselves viewed their social and political cosmos without the bias of western European interpretation. At the same time, however, the complex calendrical information recorded in the Zouche-Nuttall has made it resistant to historical, chronological analysis, thereby rendering its narrative obscure. In this pathfinding work, Robert Lloyd Williams presents a methodology for reading the Codex Zouche-Nuttall that unlocks its essentially linear historical chronology. Recognizing that the codex is a combination of history in the European sense and the timelessness of myth in the Native American sense, he brings to vivid life the history of Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan (AD 935–1027), a ruler with the attributes of both man and deity, as well as other heroic Oaxacan figures. Williams also provides context for the history of Lord Eight Wind through essays dealing with Mixtec ceremonial rites and social structure, drawn from information in five surviving Mixtec codices.

Manuscripts, Mixtec. --- Mixtec Indians --- Mixtec language --- Picture-writing --- History. --- Kings and rulers. --- Writing. --- Eight Wind, --- Codex Nuttall. --- Ideography --- Pictographs --- Pictography --- Archaeology --- Hieroglyphics --- Inscriptions --- Writing --- Mixteca Indians --- Mixteco Indians --- Indians of Mexico --- Mixtec manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian) --- Wind, Eight, --- Eight Wind Eagle Flints, --- Codex Zouche-Nuttall --- Nuttall Codex --- Códice Nuttall --- Codex Zouche --- Códice Zouche