‘image/text’
What is an image?
First of all, we should admit that the term of an image is not clear at all, because of the variety of things which go by this name. And, as some of us may think, it‘s not the problem of english language, because the english language has many words to name visual icons: an image, an icon, a picture, a spectacle, a view, an imago, a simulacrum, a vision, a sight and others. ‚An image‘ is simply very wide term.
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An image. The ideological aspect
Instead of analyzing the similarities between an image and a text, linguistic message or language, Thomas Mitchell tends to ask what are the differences between them. His book ‘Iconology. Image, Text, Ideology’ reflects two most important questions: what is an image; and what is the difference between images and words.
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An image. ‘Mythical’ type of speech
In early 80’s Roland Barthes wrote his study on the myth, ‘Mythologies’[1]. He wrote that the myth today ‘is a type of speech’, it means – special type of language, to define the myth he uses such terms as ‘metalanguage’, ‘language’, ‘discourse’, ‘speech’. He uses linguistic categories, terms to describe the myth.
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The relation between images and texts (Intro)
Many thoughts about the relation between images and texts rushed into my head after I visited a couple of events of the Audiovisual Poetry Festival in Vilnius. For this reason somewhere in my computer brain I found an essay about an imagery that I’ve written some time ago in the context of cultural studies. This is an introduction of the essay.
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