Sign and Design - Script as Image in Cross-Cultural Perspective (300-1600 CE)

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-88402-407-1
Verlag: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 220 mm x 287 mm, Gewicht: 1113 g

Reihe: Dumbarton Oaks Symposia and Colloquia

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bedos-rezak, Brigitte Miriam

Hamburger, Jeffrey F.

Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte Miriam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schrift, Paläographie, Orthographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

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

Hamburger, Jeffrey F.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger is Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. His recent books include <i>Color in Cusanus</i> and <i>The Birth of the Author</i>.