HUMA 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The World Academy Of Sciences, My Last Duchess, Microsoft Powerpoint
7 Oct 2017
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Written texts are very important, of course, but so are images, i. e. , visual texts, which can be of great complexity and carry rich cultural information. From childhood men have an instinct for representation, and in this respect man differs from the other animals in that he is far more imitative and learns his first lessons by representing things. He says that rhythm is something that humans have. kinds) rather than written texts: Aristotle says that representations differ from one another in three ways: in object, manner (how do you represent it?) and means (the medium you use to reproduce it). The importance of (cid:498)objects(cid:499) (buildings, carvings, sculptures, paintings of all (cid:498))f you want to tell the history of the whole world, a history that does not for most of the time, has not. Writing is one of humanity(cid:495)s later their concerns and aspirations not only in writing but in things . Societies have had many different attitudes to images.
