Signs Symbols and Ciphers Decoding the Message (New Horizons)

How does a sign represent something other than itself? How do we understand the meaning of a written symbol? Can clothes be a sign? Can sounds? Signs and symbols represent ideas and objects and, over time, these marks and gestures have multiplied into a complex network of images. This handy pocket-book combines scholarship, documentary evidence and fantastic illustrations to provide the story of how we have interacted with signs and symbols across the ages.

About the author

Georges Jean (1920 - 2011) was a French poet and essayist specializing in the field of linguistics, poetry and the philosophy of semiology.

Product details

• Authors: Sophie Hawkes, Georges Jean, Jean Georges
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.1999
• EAN: 9780500300879
• ISBN: 978-0-500-30087-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 180 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Series: New Horizons; New Horizons S.; New Horizons
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, ART / History / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Semiotics / semiology, Icons;Cave Art