The main thrust of my essay is to discuss the relationship between type and image, as to how they work with each other and looking at cases where they do not work together but actually contradict each other, by the way we interpret them as signs and representations. I will be focussing on looking at Magritte's painting, 'La Trahison des Images', translated as 'The Treachery of Images'.
The methodological approach I will be using to try and read this text and write my essay on will be a Semiotic analysis.
The texts I will be looking at include:
//Berger, J., 1972. Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin.
Discussing the relationship between how what we see and what we know is never settled.
//Chandler, D., 2002. Semiotics. The Basics. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge.
Looking at critical writing on semiotics as a baseline for my investigation, including signifers, the signified, representations, resemblance and similitude.
//Levy, S., 1990. Foucault on Magritte on Resemblance, Modern Language Review Vol. 85, p.50
Foucault and Magritte both talk on representation of Magritte's own image, and see where they agree and disagree on such items.
//Barnard, M. 2005. Graphic Design as Communication. New York: Routledge.
Critical writer discussing his views and the views of some others on image 'The Treachery of Images', as 'This is not a pipe'.
//Foucault, M. 1968. This Is Not A Pipe. Los Angeles: University of California Press
Talking specifically on the image I am concentrating on, discussing what is its resemblance and how we see such items.
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