Appel à contribution : « Pseudo-Scripts: (Il)legibility and Ornamentation », Pise/en ligne, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa/Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, 2-3 mai 2025, date limite le 8 décembre 2024
Ornaments and their (il)legibility have long intrigued scholars of visual culture, gaining traction in scholarship [e.g. Necipoğlu, Payne 2016]. Pseudo-scripts in particular — lines that resemble writing but are ultimately in toto or in part illegible — have become a privileged focus of interest when approaching the broader phenomenon. This conference asks the question of what makes the appearance of script so compelling even when it is stripped of its content. What lingers of its...