Dictionary of Visual Language - Hardcover

Philip Thompson And Peter Davenport

 
9780903767071: Dictionary of Visual Language

Synopsis

This is a dictionary of graphic objects, devices, clichés, stereotypes and symbols that constitute an international and trans-cultural visual language. For Abacus, Before and After, Clock, Dance, Ear, Flag, Graffiti, Heart, Inkpot, Janus, Kitchener, Label, Mask, Newspaper, Onomatopoeia, Paper Clip, Quotation Marks, Rear View, Scribble, Target, Uncle Sam, Ventriloquist's Dummy, Women with Moustaches, X-ray, Yoke, Zzzz.
The use of these and other 1200 entries is illustrated by over 1700 examples, provided by the work of the world's leading art directors, graphic designers, photographers, illustrators and artists of the last four decades.

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ISBN 10:  0140511172 ISBN 13:  9780140511178
Publisher: Penguin Books, 1982
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