Description
Encouraging us to rethink what we know about words and images and how they interact, this book highlights the complex relationship between ways of looking and reading.
About the Author
Ludmilla Jordanova is Emeritus Professor of History and Visual Culture at Durham University, UK. She is the author of History in Practice, 3rd Edition (Bloomsbury, 2019) and co-editor of Writing Visual Histories (Bloomsbury, 2020). Florence Grant holds a PhD in History from King's College London, UK, and is currently an independent writer and editor based in Western North Carolina, USA. With Ludmilla Jordanova, she is co-editor of Writing Visual Histories (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Reviews
Framed by a bracingly intelligent introduction and commentaries that challenge conventional notions about word/image relationships, the essays gathered here ground subtle arguments in detailed analyses of telling cases. The material is unfamiliar, the treatment eye-opening. * Elizabeth Cowling, University of Edinburgh, UK *
Words and images meet, and they also converse, in this exhilarating collection. It makes its mark not just as a sequence of enthralling case studies but as a model for fruitful interdisciplinary discussion. * Stephen Bann, Bristol University, UK *
A superb edited volume ... Through their interventions as editors, Jordanova and Grant guide us through a series of thought-provoking topics. This is a book that asks us to think about why people put bookplates in their personal libraries, why we keep photographs, how popular illustrated journals function, and much, much more. * Stephen Norris, Miami University, USA *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350300569
Author Prof. Ludmilla Jordanova
Format Hardback
Page Count 248
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC