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9780521624992

On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them

On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them
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  • ISBN-13: 9780521624992
  • ISBN: 0521624991
  • Publication Date: 2011
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

AUTHOR

Elkins, James

SUMMARY

In this 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 can not be apprehended as signs.Elkins, James is the author of 'On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them', published 2011 under ISBN 9780521624992 and ISBN 0521624991.

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