Reading iconotexts - Info and Reading Options
from Swift to the French Revolution
By Wagner, Peter
"Reading iconotexts" was published by Reaktion Books in 1995 - London, it has 211 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Reading iconotexts” Metadata:
- Title: Reading iconotexts
- Author: Wagner, Peter
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 211
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publish Date: 1995
- Publish Location: London
“Reading iconotexts” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Art and literature - Iconoclasm - 21.32 history of the graphic arts - 18.05 English literature - Illustration - Literatur - Bildergeschichte - Semantik - Iconografie - Tekstinterpretatie - Prenten - Ironie (rhétorique) - Dans la littérature - Dans l'art - Dessin - Gravure - Illustration des livres - Geschichte 1726-1790 - Geschichte 1700-1789
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: 211 p. :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL550626M - OL2398784W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 33058093
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 96131885
- ISBN-10: 094846271X
- All ISBNs: 094846271X
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"Reading iconotexts" Description:
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Traditionally, texts and images have been discussed together on the assumption that they are 'sister arts', but in Reading Iconotexts Peter Wagner pushes beyond the word-image opposition in a radical attempt to break down the barriers between literature and art. He sets out here the new approach he has identified for dealing with the 'iconotext' - a genre in which neither image nor text is free from the other. Examples include Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a number of William Hogarth's best-known engravings, and a sample of the so-called 'obscene' propaganda prints that were published during the French Revolution. Throughout, the author argues for the importance of seeing text and image as mutually interdependent in the ways they establish meaning. . It becomes clear in the course of Wagner's exposition that one cannot study prints without taking into account their accompanying inscriptions; whilst illustrated books contain two kinds of 'text' - one verbal, one visual - that are invariably at odds with one another. Drawing on theories of intertextuality and semiotics as developed by Barthes and Kristeva, as well as post-structuralist studies by Derrida, Foucault and others, Reading Iconotexts treats pictures as encoded visual discourse and illustrations in books as counter-discourse. The author's persuasively argued polemic in favour of recognising the 'iconotext' as a viable advance in methodology is an important contribution to current debates on word and image.
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