The essays in this collection are a selection of the papers given at the Fifth International Conference on Word and Image Studies, Claremont, CA, 14-20 March, 1

In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was

Text and image are used together in an increasingly flexible fashion and many disciplines and areas of study are now attempting to understand how these combinat

The essays in this collection discuss how the city is ‘textualized’, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about

This volume covers the development of the textual medium in art from the early combinations of text, lettering and image in the work of seminal artists such as