Words and images
Subtitle: a French rendez-vous
By: edited & translated by Anthony Wall
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Calgary
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781552382592
Subjects: Congresses; Words in art; Written communication; Visual communication; Art and literature
Description: "Words and images interact with each other in art and everyday life, and do so in various ways. Building on recent currents of thinking in visual semiotics and the philosophy of language, a vibrant interdisciplinary field of inquiry called "word-and-image studies" has developed over the past few decades. Much of this new scholarship, however, has originated in the French-speaking world and thus has not been available in English-until now." "Words and Images: A French Rendez-vous features six new essays translated from the French by editor Anthony Wall, These explorations spin an adventurous web through time-from the very beginnings of human symbolic systems on prehistoric cave walls to the textual background of early modern and Enlightenment art, from the coexistence of a poem and a coloured drawing visible on an exterior wall in contemporary Paris to an interdisciplinary space that includes archaeology, anthropology, art history, literary and communications theory, and the philosophy of mind." "The volume concludes with a bibliographical essay that provides an extensive summary of the most recent critical studies undertaken in France, Belgium, and French-speaking Canada."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: [Essays] "stem for the most part from an international symposium held at the University of Calgary in March-April 2007"--P. xvii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes some text in French and Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Obscure objects of depiction and description : the example of Alechinsky's and Bonnefoy's painted wall (Rue Descartes, Paris)  -- Marie-Dominique Popelard; title: Mary Magdalene in the village of Emmaus : notes on two paintings by Laurent de La Hyre  -- Bruno Nassim Aboudrar; title: Painting the readers of the eighteenth century  -- Anthony Wall; title: The decisive moment  -- Stéphane Lojkine; title: On the strategies of portraiture in the images and texts of seventeenth-century Spain  -- Pierre Civil; title: The invention of prehistoric rock art : a visual experience  -- Béatrice Fraenkel; title: Word-and-image studies in France : a bibliographical essay ---- Other cited (but unillustrated) works of art-- Colour plates.