Sweeter than Honey

The Written Art Collection is dedicated to artistic positions that combine language, writing and images.

Starting with the Informel movement of the 1950s and gestural abstraction, the more than 100 works on display present the continuity of the significance of written art across generations and cultures: artists invent imaginative alphabets and sign languages, write poems, quote from literature, and translate thoughts and conversations into spray-painted, graphic, gestural or embroidered messages.

Edited by: Madeleine Freund, Oliver Kase
Texts by: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, Madeleine Freund, Birgit Hopfener, Oliver Kase, Thomas Kellein
Institution: Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

192 pages, 160 photos/softcover with flaps 240 mm x 288 mm