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The Language of images.

Includes bibliographical references and index. CONTENTS: lntroduction.-Nemerov, H. On poetry

and painting, with a thought of music.-Argan, G. C. Ideology and iconology.-Taylor, J. C. (etc.]

I. Arts-Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Mitchell, W. J. Thomas, 1942-NX60.L33 700 80-5225 ISBN 0-226-53215-1

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Contents

Howard N emerov

Giulio Carlo Argan

joshua C. Taylor

Elizabeth Abel

Ernest B. Gilman

Leo Steinberg

Gerald Mast

Christian Metz

Rudolf Arnheim

E. H. Gombrich

j oel Snyder

j ohn R. Searle

Robert P. Morgan

W.]. T. Mitchell

INTRODUCTIO N

9 On Poetry and Painting, With a Thought of Music

15 Ideology and Iconology

25 Two Visual Excursions

37 Redefining the Sister Arts: Baudelaire's Response to the A rt of Delacroix

59 Word and Image in Quarles' Emblemes

85 The Line of Fate in Michelangelo's Painting

129 Kracauer's Two Tendencies and the Early Histor y of Film Narrative

151 Trucage and the Film

171 A Plea for Visual Thinking

181 Standards of Truth: The Arrested Image and the Moving Eye

219 Picturing Vision

247 Las M eninas and the Paradoxes of Pictorial Representation

259 Musical Time/ Musical Space

271 Spatial Form in Literature: Toward a General Theory

301 IND EX