On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them by James Elkins

On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them

James Elkins

346 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

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In this innovative, interdisciplinary 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 cannot be ...

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