The Language of Images

The Language of Images
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Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 0226532151
ISBN-13 : 9780226532158
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Book Synopsis The Language of Images by : W. J. Thomas Mitchell

Download or read book The Language of Images written by W. J. Thomas Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1980-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A remarkably rich and provocative set of essays on the virtually infinite kinds of meanings generated by images in both the verbal and visual arts. Ranging from Michelangelo to Velazquez and Delacroix, from the art of the emblem book to the history of photography and film, The Language of Images offers at once new ways of thinking about the inexhaustibly complex relation between verbal and iconic representation."—James A. W. Heffernan, Dartmouth College


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