Literal visions
by Nicholas J. Wade
International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART), Vol. 3, No. 2/3, 2010

Abstract: The languages of art and science differ but they share a common concern with representing concepts visually – they both employ images. The uses to which images are put also distinguish the two endeavours. The images of art are typically extended and often bear some spatial relationship to their referents. We often overlook the fact that written language communicates by images, too. One of the attractions of the term is its appeal to the spatial dimension both in pictures and in their internal representations, as well as in describing them verbally. Pictorial images provide allusions to spaces they do not occupy; they refer indirectly to the objects they represent. Images in art refer, in the first instance, to the marks made on a surface. The term image is also used to convey the impact that the pictorial image has on the viewer. Written words also have a spatial dimension but it has often been neglected. Here, the interplay between written words and vision is explored both theoretically and graphically.

Online publication date: Wed, 07-Apr-2010

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