On Pictures and the Words that Fail ThemAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 17 February 2011
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In this innovative, interdisciplinary 1998 study, James Elkins argues against the assumption that images can be adequately described in words. In his view, words must always fail because pictures possess a residue of 'meaningless' marks that cannot be apprehended as signs.
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