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Art and inscriptions in the ancient world
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ISBN: 9780521868518 0521868513 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,


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Script as image
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ISBN: 9789042930353 9042930357 Year: 2014 Volume: 21 Publisher: Leuven Paris Walpole, MA Peeters

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In the Middle Ages, writing conveyed far more than information. In contradistinction to the modern separation of image and text and, by implication, form and content, which was reified with the invention of printing, illuminated manuscripts made images out of words. In consonance with Christian doctrine, which declared that the Word had become flesh, letters painted on parchment assumed bodily presence to create effects of power and persuasion. Painted letters elicited modes of performance, oral recitation and ritual action. Far from calligraphic ornament or a medium with prescribed boundaries, medieval lettering reveals itself as a flexible instrument in which various categories of human experience and expression - the audible, the visible, the symbolic and the figurative - come together. Among the topics touched on by this book are display scripts, monograms, nomina sacra and carmina figurata, epigraphic inscriptions, chrysography and color, speech scrolls, relationships among author, scribe and artist as expressed through scripts, the anthropomorphic dimensions of abstract lettering, and the impact of iconic scripts on the reader.


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Sign and design : script as image in cross-cultural perspective (300-1600 CE)
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ISBN: 9780884024071 0884024075 Year: 2016 Publisher: Baltimore Dumbarton Oaks research library and collection

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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. 00This 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.

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