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ERIC Number: EJ525887
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-2224
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Between Picture and Proposition: Torturing Paintings in Wittgenstein's "Tractatus."
Elkins, James
Visible Language, v30 n1 p72-95 Win 1996
Argues that Wittgenstein's picture theory in "Tractatus" is, contrary to widespread assumptions, actually about pictures in several important senses, and that it offers a more rigorous and logical model of graphic meaning than many later theories. (TB)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Art History, Higher Education, Illustrations, Interdisciplinary Approach, Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Speech Acts, Writing (Composition)
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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