On Pictures and the Words that Fail Them

James (Art Institute of Chicago) Elkins

Cambridge University Press, 2011

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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.

ISBN-13
9780521624992
ISBN-10
0521624991
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
Publication date
2011-02-17
Pages
348
Dimensions
228x158x22
Weight
518