Essays describe how the illustration of texts has changed since the eighteenth century and how text itself has interacted with visual art.

This volume contains two of Professor Meyer Schapiro's most important works on the complex and provocative relationships between writing and images. In "Words a

A new collection explores the complex role of visual representation in science.

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