Words, script, and pictures : semiotics of visual language / by Meyer Schapiro.

Main entry:

Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996, author. aut

Title & Author:

Words, script, and pictures : semiotics of visual language / by Meyer Schapiro.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : George Braziller, 1996.

Description:

199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-112).
Words and pictures : on the literal and the symbolic in the illustration of a text: chapter 1. The artist's reading of a text ; chapter 2. Theme of state and theme of action (I) ; chapter 3. Theme of state and theme of action (II) ; chapter 4. Frontal and profile as symbolic forms -- Script in pictures : semiotics of visual languge.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0807614165
9780807614167

Subject:

Visual communication.
Semiotics.
Communication visuelle.
Bild
Kunstwissenschaft
Semiotik
Text
Theorie
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Bildanalyse
Textanalyse
Beeldcommunicatie.

Added entries:

Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996. Words and pictures.
Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996. Script and pictures.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 112067
Call No.: ID P93.5.S33; ID:96-B2073
Status: Available

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