On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them

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Beschreibung

In this innovative, interdisciplinary 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. On Pictures and the Words that Fail Them is a 1998 text which provides detailed, incisive critiques of fundamental notions about pictures: their allegedly semiotic structures; the 'rational' nature of realism; and the ubiquity of the figure-ground relation. Elkins then opens the concept of images to non-Western and prehistoric ideas, exploring Chinese concepts of magic, Mesopotamian practices of counting and sculpture, religious ideas about hypostasis, philosophical discussions concerning invisibility and blindness, and questions on the limits of the destruction of meaning.

Über den Autor

James Elkins is E. C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Marks, Traces, Traits, Contours, Orli, and Splendors; 2. The anti-splendor; 3. Figure and Ground in Philosophy, Neurophysiology, Phenomenology, Psychology, Painting, and Psychoanalysis; 4. The signs of writing; 5. The common origins of pictures, writing, and notation; 6. Different horizons for the concept of image; 7. Nine steps down the ladder of disorder; 8. The unrepresentable, the unpicturable, the inconceivable, the unseeable.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Antiquitäten
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780521624992
ISBN-10:	0521624991
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Elkins, James Elkins
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	James Elkins (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.12.2010
Gewicht:	0,565 kg