Sign and Design Script As Image in Cross-Cultural Perspective (300-1600 CE) |
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| Editor:
| Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte Miriam
Hamburger, Jeffrey F. |
| Series title: | Dumbarton Oaks Symposia and Colloquia Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-88402-407-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2016 |
| Publisher: | Dumbarton Oaks
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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Sign and Design addresses the pictorial dimension of writing systems from cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives. Historians, paleographers, and anthropologists engage with pictographic, ideographic, and logographic writing systems and alphabetic scripts, examining diverse examples of cross-pollination between language and art.
Sign and Design addresses the pictorial dimension of writing systems from cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives. Historians, paleographers, and anthropologists engage with pictographic, ideographic, and logographic writing systems and alphabetic scripts, examining diverse examples of cross-pollination between language and art.