On Pictures and the Words that Fail Them - Brossura

Elkins, James

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521624991 ISBN 13: 9780521624992

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Riassunto

An 1998 art historical study of the way in which images and words differ as 'signs'.

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Descrizione del libro

In this innovative, interdisciplinary 1998 study, James Elkins argues against the assumption that images can be adequately described in words. In his view, words must always fail because pictures possess a residue of 'meaningless' marks that cannot be apprehended as signs.

Contenuti

1. Marks, Traces, Traits, Contours, Orli, and Splendors; 2. The anti-splendor; 3. Figure and Ground in Philosophy, Neurophysiology, Phenomenology, Psychology, Painting, and Psychoanalysis; 4. The signs of writing; 5. The common origins of pictures, writing, and notation; 6. Different horizons for the concept of image; 7. Nine steps down the ladder of disorder; 8. The unrepresentable, the unpicturable, the inconceivable, the unseeable.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521624991
• ISBN 13: 9780521624992
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 348
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile