미술 전시를 보러가면, 전시장 안의 전시도 보지만, 종종 많은 시간을 미술관 서점 혹은 간이 서점에서 보내곤 한다. 주로 전시와 연관이 있다고 판단되는 책들을 진열해 놓고 판다. 무빙 이미지 번역 서비스 사무소 전시를 준비하면서 텍스트와 전시의 관계에 대해서 많이 생각하는데, 개인적 경험을 되집어 보면, 전시장 내에 디스플레이 되어있는 텍스트 (벽에 적혀 있던지, 프린트 물이 전시되어 있던지) 는 잘 안 읽게 되는 반면, 전시장 밖에 진열되어 있는 책 (속의) 텍스트는 한참동안 서서 읽곤 한다. 왜 그런지에 대해서는, 좀 더 생각해 봐야 겠지만, 당장은 텍스트를 책이라는 매체를 통해 읽던 습관이 몸에 뭍어있어서라고 추측하는데... 미술 전시 콘텍스트에서 텍스트를 어떻게 전시하는게 효과적인가 하는 질문.
대영 도서관의 현재 전시, "Evolving English - One Language, Many Voices"가 언어에 대한 전시여서 그런지, 유달리 많은 책들이 관련 도서로 선정되어 진열되어 있었다. 이 도서들의 "큐레이팅"도 전시의 구성 요소로써, 나름 세심한 고민 끝에 나온 결정으로 느껴져, 전체 리스트 적고 알파벳 순서로 재나열해 보았다.
(Below is a complete list of the books that are selected for the exhibition “Evolving English”, and displayed for sale at the British Library's bookshop.)
1001 Words You Need To Know and Use: An A-Z of Effective Vocabulary
A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition
A Little Book of Language (Little Histories)
Bees Knees and Barmy Armies
Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language
Beowulf: The Fight at Finnsburh (Oxford World's Classics)
Brewer's Dictionary of London Phrase & Fable
Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
Chambers Rhyming Dictionary
Chambers Slang Dictionary
Complete Old English: Teach Yourself [Paperback]
Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare
Dictionary of Modern English Usage
Discovering English Dialects
Discovering Words
Discovering Words in the Kitchen (Shire Discovering)
Don't Get Me Wrong!: The Global Gestures Guide
Dr.Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World
Eats shoots and leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Evolving English
Evolving English Explored
Filthy English: The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing
Found in Translation: An extremely guide to speaking correctly English
Globish
Grammar-land: Grammar in Fun for the Children of Schoolroom-shire: A Facsimile
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die
How to Read a Word
How to Talk Like a Local: From Cockney to Geordie, a national companion
I Before E (Except After C): Old-School Ways to Remember Stuff
I Never Knew There Was a Word For It
I Used to Know That: Stuff You Forgot from School
In the Land of Punctuation
Just a Phrase I'm Going Through: My Life in Language
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Mend Your English: Or What You Should Have Been Taught at Primary School
Mr. Tickle (Mr. Men Classic Library)
Muggin's Dictionary: Guide for the Hopeless Speller
My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English
Outdoor Types: An Urban Alphabet
Oxford A-Z of Better Spelling
Oxford A-Z of English Usage
Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation
Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation, The Essential Handbook of the Spoken Word
Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins
Oxford Guide to Plain English
Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage (Oxford Paperback Reference)
PUNCTUATION Personified or Pointing Made Easy.
Rude Rhyming Slang
Scapegoats, Shambles and Shibboleths: The Queen's English from the King James Bible
Shapes for sounds (cowhouse)
Smut: Down & Dirty With the Filthiest Words
Speak: A Short History of Languages
Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them
Strictly English: The correct way to write … and why it matters
The Adventure of English
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)
The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699
The First English Dictionary, 1604: Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabetically
The Future of Language
The Golden Primer: A Facsimile
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
The Language Wars: A History of Proper English
The Language Wars: A History of Proper English
The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang (Oxford Paperback Reference)
The Perfect Punctuation Book
The Queen's English: And How to Use It
The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
The Riverside Chaucer: Reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon
The Stories of English
The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
Why is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-Perfect Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Language
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