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This book uncovers how we make meaning of abstraction, both historically and in present times, and examines abstract images as a visual language. The contributors will demonstrate that abstraction is not primarily an artistic phenomenon, but rather arose from human beings' desire to imagine, understand, and communicate complex, ineffable concepts in fields ranging from fine art and philosophy to technologies of data visualisation, from cartography and medicine to astronomy. The book will be of interest to scholars working in image studies, visual studies, art history, philosophy, and aesthetics.

Visual metaphor --- Abstraction --- Art, Abstract --- Abstract art --- Art, Non-objective --- Non-objective art --- Art, Modern --- Modernism (Art) --- Abstract thought --- Cognition --- Logic --- Thought and thinking --- Analogical juxaposition --- Juxtaposition, Analogical --- Metaphor, Nonverbal --- Metaphor, Pictorial --- Metaphor, Visual --- Nonverbal metaphor --- Pictorial metaphor --- Nonverbal communication --- Visual communication --- E-books --- Visual metaphor. --- Abstraction. --- Art, Abstract. --- Aesthetics --- Iconography

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Makes available the essential information and critical assessment of major topics in Image Studies all in one place for the first time. Presents key concerns, histories, and methodologies central to contemporary Image Studies in a clear order and through distinguishable thematic units. Serves as an essential reference for every student in visual communication, media theory, visual culture, visual semiotics, art theory, film studies, and philosophy of the image.

Semiotics --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Aesthetics --- Sociology of culture --- Mass communications --- Art --- communicatie --- cultuur --- esthetica --- kunst --- semiotiek --- culturele antropologie --- Visual communication. --- Image (Philosophy) --- Communication visuelle --- Image (Philosophie)

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This book uncovers an underlying dispute over the role images play in contemporary society and, consequently, over their values and purposes. Two decades after the concepts of the pictorial and the iconic turn changed our vernacular involvement with regard to images, it has become clear that it was not only a newly discovered social, political or sexual construction of the visual field that brought turbulence into disciplinary knowledge, but that images have their own "pictorial logic" with powers exceeding those that are purely iconic or visually discernible. Instead of underscoring previousl

Visual communication. --- Pictures --- Iconography --- Pictorial representations --- Art --- Visual aids --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Communication --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects.