Iconic Books and Texts - Sacred texts (HRLC) - James W. Watts
7. Between the Textual and the Visual: Borderlines of Late Antique Book Iconicity
Iconic Books and Texts - Sacred texts (HRLC) - James W. Watts
Zeev Elitzur
Description
This chapter describes two modes of crossing the boundaries between the book as an object of reading and the book as an object of viewing. In both traditions, the iconic dimension of the book bypasses the textual level and highlights the visual level.