Directeur(s) / Directrice(s) de l'ouvrage :
Anthony Wall (édition et traduction)
Nbre ou N° pages :
p. 93-137
Editeur :
University of Calgary Press
Année :
2010
Revue, Collection, Ouvrage collectif :
Words and Images. A French Rendez-vous
Type de production :
Chapitre d'ouvrage
n° ISBN (ou ISSN) :
978-1552382592
Words and images interact with each other in art and everyday life, and do so in many different ways. Building on recent trends in linguistic analysis and visual semiotics, 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 language on prehistoric cave walls, to the textual background of early modern and Enlightenment art, to the coexistence of a poem and a coloured drawing on an exterior wall in contemporary Paris – and through interdisciplinary space, from archaeology and anthropology to art history, literary and communications theory, and 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 Canada.