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Title: Sign and Design : Script As Image in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0884024075
ISBN 13: 9780884024071
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Weight: 2.703 pounds

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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.

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.

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

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 Color in Cusanus and The Birth of the Author.

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