ENGB38H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Soltyrei, Mary Fleener, Osamu Tezuka
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Example: ren magritte"s the treachery of images. A painting of a pipe that says in french this is not a pipe . This statement is true - this is a painting of a pipe, and specifically it"s a drawing that was later printed. So, the painting is not a pipe, but a printing of a drawing of a pipe. Icon: a person/thing regarded as a representative symbol; via latin from greek eik n "likeness, image" (oed) Mccloud"s definition of icon: any image used to represent a person, place, thing or idea (p. 27) Symbol" is a category of icon - they represent concepts, ideas, and philosophies. What we"re particularly looking at are pictures as icons - as the resemblance of the picture to it"s subject varies, so does the level of iconic content. For example, non-pictorial icons (letters) have a fixed and absolute meaning.
