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This volume contains two of Professor Meyer Schapiro's most important works on the complex and provocative relationships between writing and images. In "Words and Pictures: On the Literal and the Symbolic in the Illustration of a Text", Professor Schapiro examines the relationship between images and the texts that it is their function to illustrate. This relationship is far from simple, and lends itself to all sorts of variations, transformations, displacements, overflowings, and even contradictions that are ultimately symbols of "changing ideas and ways of thought". The second text, "Script in Pictures: Semiotics of Visual Language", is published here for the first time. For generations, medieval book art served as a prime field for the invention of styles of art and as the expression of individual sensibilities. Against this background, Schapiro elaborates on the intricate ways in which medieval artists transformed writing and images in their books, often integrating them to convey, in highly concise formats, their powerful messages. In some cases, a physical bond with language even determined pictorial factors. While Professor Schapiro focuses on medieval examples, he extends his investigation to modern art by analyzing script in the works of Goya, Picasso, Homer, and Manet.
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- Title Words, Script, and Pictures: Semiotics of Visual Language
- Author Meyer Schapiro
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 199
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher George Braziller, New York
- Publication date 1996
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780807614167 / 0807614165
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.33 x 6.16 x 0.79 in (23.70 x 15.65 x 2.01 cm)
- Category Art & Art Instruction
- Library of Congress subjects Semiotics, Visual communication
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96018996
- Dewey Decimal Code 302.230
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- Booklist, 09/15/1996, Page 191
- Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/1996, Page 1133
- Publishers Weekly, 07/29/1996, Page 76
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