Word and Image

Warburg, Aby. Pagan-Antique Prophecy in Words and Images in the Age of Luther (1920). In Aby Warburg The Revival of Pagan Antiquity, translated by David Britt, 597-697. Los Angeles Getty Research Institute, 1999. 

Mann, P. Symmetry, Chance, Biomorphism A Comparison of the Visual Art and Poetry of Hans Arp s Dada Period. Word and Image 6 (1990) 82-99. 

Before reading further, which of these words and images do you think humans rate most beautiful ... 

Walker, Bingham, A. The Snake-Oil Syndrome Patent Medicine Advertising. Hanover, Mass. Christopher Publishing House, 1994. With reprints of the words and images from patent medicine ads, this book illustrates the excessive claims made by merchants, marketers, and manufacturers during the 1800s and early 1900s. 

On the part below the central figure panel, rows of hieroglyphs record thirteen magic spells to protect against poisonous bites and wounds and to cure the illnesses caused by them. .. A victim could recite or drink water that had been poured over the magic words and images on the stela. 

In most cases, I have resisted the temptation to rearrange the order of Bhogar s words. This refusal on my part may make the translated portion of this work seem more choppy and disjointed in places, but I feel that the sequence in which Bhogar presents these words and images is important, and that any attempt on my part to make Bhogar s 7000 "more readable" would subvert the effect that his work was intended to instill in the reader. 

The idea of the scientific mind using word and image as organs of its own... self-revelation is especially important in scientific problem solving experts consciously choose to use materialistic (and other concrete) metaphors drawn from daily life. That is, for as long as it is useful, the expert knowingly acts as if the metaphor is literal, then switches to a more abstract metaphor for which there is no experiential basis, or even runs contrary to the expectations of naive experience. 

Communication, and especially the mass communication of stereotypes, depends on the symbolic power of words and images. Neutral words such as place-names can be made to symbolize complex ideas and emotions for example. Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, Dallas and Aberfan. A similar process occurred in the Mods and Rockers inventory these words themselves and a word such as Clacton acquired symbolic powers. It became... 

For the foreseeable future, there will always be news to report, information to supply, products and services to sell, causes to promote, politicians to elect, legislation to be enacted, and government actions to document and disseminate. There will always be ethical debates about what can be done versus what should be done. There will always be a place for those who advance the art and science of communication through performance, education, therapy, research, or innovation. And there will always be a need for people who can consistently connect successfully with fellow humans through the evocative use of words and images. 

Fred Miller Robinson, The Wizard Proprieties of Poe and Magritte, Word and Image 3 (April-June 1987) 157. 

This isn t to say that comic books aren t a remarkably rich medium. The expressive combinations of words and images, and even the... 

Keep in mind as you read this chapter that light is constantly streaming into your own eyes all day long. The light causes a chemical reaction in molecules within your retina that sends nerve impulses to your brain that you interpret as sight. In fact, this very reaction allows you to see the words and images on this page. 

These indicators have a number of flaws, which leads to a conclusion that no socieil rating may suffice or result in useable data [...]. In the same way that natural eind other green washing words and images have harmed the concept of environmenteil susteiinability, tacking labels on companies based on surface-level indicators may ruin the point of social... 

Calvin and Bunyan on Word and Image Is There a Text in Interpreter s House , ELR, 18 (1988), 438-59. 

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