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![On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them by James Elkins](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBNXFkTXc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--2fcea60dc81a485659561a07917a3a0b4a401bb1/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/On%20Pictures%20and%20the%20Words%20That%20Fail%20Them.jpg)
348 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521624992
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 17 February 2011
Description
In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, James Elkins argues against the assumption that images can be adequately described in words. In his view, words must always fail because pictures possess a residue of 'meaningless' marks that cannot be ...
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![On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them by James Elkins](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBNXFkTXc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--2fcea60dc81a485659561a07917a3a0b4a401bb1/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/On%20Pictures%20and%20the%20Words%20That%20Fail%20Them.jpg)
348 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521624992
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 17 February 2011
Description
In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, James Elkins argues against the assumption that images can be adequately described in words. In his view, words must always fail because pictures possess a residue of 'meaningless' marks that cannot be ...