Sign, Image, Symbol
New York: George Braziller, 1966. First Printing. Hardcover. Tan cloth. 282 pp. numerous bw illustrations. No dj. VG+, clean, bright, tight. Item #117
Between 1965 and 1966, New York book publisher George Braziller published a six volume series under the title Vision + Value. The aim of the series, “…to stimulate the circulation of ideas, to find channels of communication that interconnect various disciplines and offer us a sense of structure in our 20th century world,” encouraged interdisciplinary cooperation and sought to bring together the day’s foremost artists, scientists and scholars. Each volume centred on a broad basic theme with the series itself speaking to the fundamental role of vision for human insight and expression. This volume, the last in the series, contains the following essays: The world as a communication network: signs, images and symbols / Lawrence K. Frank -- From stimulus to symbol: the economy of biological computation / Heinz Von Foerster -- Image and thought / Rudolf Arnheim -- Symbolic expression in prehistory and in the first high civilizations / S. Geidon -- A theory of pictorial perception / James J. Gibson -- Graphic symbols for world-wide communication / Rudolf Modley -- Case study: symbols for industrial use / Henry Dreyfuss -- Isomorphic interrelationships between knower and known / Abraham H. Maslow -- Paintings, ways to live, and values / Charles Morris and Frank Sciadini -- The painter's handwriting / J.P. Hodin -- The problem of reality in mid-century painting / Werner Schmalenbach -- Art in art is art as art / Ad Reinhardt -- The hangover / Robert Osborn -- Movement, film, communication / Saul Bass -- Image making in Arctic art / Edmund Carpenter -- The Eskimo discovery of man's place in the universe / Paul Riesman -- The city as symbol / John E. Burchard -- The image: the architect's inalienable vision / Ernesto N. Rogers -- Form in architecture: imitation and abstraction / P.A. Michelis -- The tree of knowledge / Ludwig von Bertalanffy.
OCLC: 649780
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