about this book

In Image Text Music, writer and editor Catherine Taylor explores the fertile space where the visual meets the verbal. Playing with and reimagining Roland Barthes’ classic 1977 collection Image Music Text, Taylor uses his title as a series of playful points of departure, opening up fresh ways of thinking about how images and words intertwine—and about the music that might emerge where they meet. Rather than making grand claims about medium or genre, Taylor lingers on the specific and the sensory. Her observations uncover ways of reading that feel both intimate and political, both grounding and disorienting. As we move between linguistic and visual modes of meaning-making, the book asks: what is the purpose of reinventing forms, if not to reinvent the ways we live?

This book was selected by Tique for Objects & Sounds.