The Language of Graphics
I read into Yuri Engelhardt’s dissertation “The Language of Graphics”, and I think it is a fantastic piece of work.
As the title suggests, the thesis suggests a linguistically motivated approach to the analysis of graphics: based from a syntactical analysis of space, objects and their relations, Engelhardt classifies and exemplifies different types of syntactic structures in which graphical objects can be arranged in order to convey meaning.
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