Product Description: The imaginary as a critical concept originated in the twentieth century and has been theorized in diverse ways. It can be understood as a register of thought; the way we interpret the world; the universe of images, signs, texts, and objects of thought...read more

Product Description: This book aims at offering a broad survey of the encounter between word and image studies and anthropology and to demonstrate the mutual benefits of this dialogue for both disciplines in the three fields of the image (Marin), the social history of writing (Petrucci), and memory (Yates)...read more

Product Description: The Wisdom of the Imagination is an overview of Lucie Lambert's work, illustrated with photography of her livres d'artiste and her art, and including two essays. First and foremost a printmaker who has employed a wide range of techniques — woodcut, wood engraving, engraving, etching, and silkscreen — Lucie Lambert has produced and published over ten livres d'artiste over the past ten years and is the recipient of several arts grants and awards...read more

Product Description: Based on papers presented at the Fifth Triennial Conference of the International Association of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS/AERTI) held in 2002 in Hamburg, the twenty-two essays in this volume cover a wide array of intermedial relations and a great variety of media, from medieval architecture to interactive digital art...read more