ISBN: 9780807614167 - Words, Script and Pictures: Semiotics of Visual Language (12 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: good. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.…

hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in excellent condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Gray paper covered boards. As issued. 199 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First. 85 black-and-white illustrations. 199 pages, 8vo, d.w. New York: George Braziller, (1996). First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.

Hardcover with dustjacket; 200 pages; very good condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 199 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 199 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Toning on spine.; 9.1 X 5.9 X 0.9 inches; 199 pages.

orig. boards. 24x16cm, 199 pp. Summary: "This volume contains two of Professor Meyer Schapiro's most important works on the complex and provocative relationships between writing and images. In "Words and Pictures: On the Literal and the Symbolic in the Illustration of a Text," Professor Schapiro examines the relationship between images and the texts that it is their function to illustrate. This relationship is far from simple, and lends itself to all sorts of variations, transformations, displacements, overflowings, and even contradictions that are ultimately symbols of "changing ideas and ways of thought". The second text, "Script in Pictures: Semiotics of Visual Language," is published here for the first time. For generations, medieval book art served as a prime field for the invention of styles of art and as the expression of individual sensibilities. Against this background, Schapiro elaborates on the intricate ways in which medieval artists transformed writing and images in their books, often integrating them to convey, in highly concise formats, their powerful messages. In some cases, a physical bond with language even determined pictorial factors. While Professor Schapiro focuses on medieval examples, he extends his investigation to modern art by analyzing script in the works of Goya, Picasso, Homer, and Manet". Name inked on flyleaf. Dustwrapper spine faded. VG., dustwrapper.…