Projektnummer

0057678

Zusammenfassung

The tendency to ignore the inextricable intertwining of the linguistic and pictorial use of signs - be it in political, scientific, artistic or everyday contexts - is as old and dangerous as the iconoclastic conception of images as false and treacherous, and as the condemnation of language as an imperfect and corrupted communicative tool. Countering these assumptions amounts to seeing both language and images as irreducible forms of world-appropriation, which spring from the ability to articulate meaning in a ceaseless interplay with the environment. As culturally transmitted technique...