PREFACE

The SFA School of Art sponsors IMAGE & TEXT, an on-going series of symposia and workshops exploring the art of the book. These occur roughly every two years or so, and vary in size and scope from small events of local and regional significance to forums exploring broad issues of relevance to the larger book arts community across the country.

IMAGE & TEXT 2004
IMAGE AND TEXT IV: Modernism, the Figure and the Narrative Tradition

THE FOURTH Image & Text Symposium took place on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University, Wednesday, October 20—Saturday, October 23, 2004. The symposium focused on the use of the figure in Modern art, especially in those areas of image making that continue the narrative tradition. The symposium included exhibitions, films, talks by artists and scholars, and workshops that explored important ideas, scholarship, and creative work relating to this topic.

PARTICIPATING SPEAKERS AND ARTISTS included:
Dr. David A. Lewis, introduction to the topic and greetings; Dr. Bradley Bailey, Assistant Professor of Art History, speaking on the artist Rico Lebrun; Chris Ingersoll, Font & Figure: The Humanistic Design of Eric Gill; Filmaker David Lebrun introducing and showing his prize winning film PROTEUS with discussants, Amy Halpern, an independent film maker from Los Angles, along with SFA professor of Cinematography William Arscott; Charles Jones on the design and printing of TIMON OF ATHENS by William Shakespeare; and a panel of artists who use the figure in their work, including: John Daniel, Gary Frields, and Teresa Kirchner