Words, Script, and Pictures: Semiotics of Visual Language

by Meyer Schapiro

Essays describe how the illustration of texts has changed since the eighteenth century and how text itself has interacted with visual art

Genres: Theory

199 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1996

About the author

Meyer Schapiro (23 September 1904 – 3 March 1996) was a Lithuanian-born American art historian.

Schapiro was a proponent of modern art, on which he published essays alongside books on Van Gogh and Cézanne. He was a founder of Dissent, along with Irving Howe and Michael Harrington. From 1966–1967 Schapiro was the Norton professor at Harvard University.