Beautiful Theology
Signifying truth in more than words alone
A site for discussing the relation of meaning, images, sounds, and words to theological discourse.
The seminar begins with Magritte’s “Words and Images” at this page. It continues with Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics on this page.
- Words and Images 17Parfois, les noms écrits dans u...
- Words and Images 16Les figures vagues ont une sign...
- Words and Images 15Or, les contours visible des ob...
- Words and Images 14Un objet ne fait jamais le même...
- Words and Images 13I’m going to race through the n...
- TimeoutI have an essay and two book reviews due in...
- Words and Images 12On voit autrement les images et...
- Words and Images 11Dans un tableau, les mots sont ...
- Words and Images 10Les mots qui servent à désigner...
- Words and Images 9Tout tend à faire penser qu’il y...
Reading List
René Magritte
“Les Mots et les Images” In La Révolution surréaliste 12 (December 15, 1929): 32-33. Reprinted in Écrits Complets, ed. André Blavier. (Paris: Flammarion, 1979), 60-61.
Scott McCloud
Understanding Comics. Tundra Press, 1993; rep. Harper Perennial.
Edward Tufte
Visual Explanations. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1997.
Other Likely Reading
Alison Bechdel
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Luce Irigaray
Sexes and Genealogies. Columbia UP, 1993.
James Chandler, et al.
Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994.
Scott McCloud
Reinventing Comics. Harper Paperbacks, 2000.
Making Comics. Harper Paperbacks, 2006.
Edward Tufte
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 2nd ed. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 2001 (orig. ed. 1983).
Envisioning Information. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1990.
Beautiful Evidence. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 2006.
1 Comments:
How often do the words I use to describe something, confuse their meaning?
I would love to see a book full of pictures of historical figures with the word "Loved by God" written below them, and visit the emotions each picture evokes.
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