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