Sign and Design: Script as Image in Cross-Cultural Perspective (300-1600 Ce) (Dumbarton Oaks Symposia and Colloquia) - Hardcover

Brigitte Miriam Bedos-rezak; Jeffrey F. Hamburger

 
9780884024071: Sign and Design: Script as Image in Cross-Cultural Perspective (300-1600 Ce) (Dumbarton Oaks Symposia and Colloquia)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0884024075 ISBN 13: 9780884024071
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2016

Synopsis

From antiquity to the modern age, legal, documentary, exegetical, literary, and linguistic traditions have viewed the relationship between image and letter in diverse ways. There is a long history of scholarship examining this relationship, probing the manner and meaning of its dynamics in terms of equivalency, complementarity, and polarity.

This volume addresses the pictorial dimension of writing systems from cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives. Historians including specialists in art and literature paleographers, and anthropologists consider imagistic scripts of the ancient and medieval Near East, Europe, Byzantium, and Latin America, and within Jewish, polytheistic, Christian, and Muslim cultures. They engage with pictographic, ideographic, and logographic writing systems, as well as with alphabetic scripts, examining diverse examples of cross-pollination between language and art.

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About the Author

Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak is Professor of History at New York University.

Jeffrey F. Hamburger is Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, Harvard University.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0884024075
ISBN 13 
9780884024071
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
304