9. Allegory and the Migration of Symbols
The Collected Essays of Rudolf Wittkower
Rudolf Wittkower
‘For Rudolph Wittkower it was the fact that art communicated experience which made it a rewarding study, and
nothing fascinated him more than the way in which one culture picked up and transformed the images of another.’
12. ‘How does meaning get into the image? Where
does it end? And if it ends, what is there
beyond!’
Roland Barthes ‘The Rhetoric of the Image ‘ in Image,
Music Text 1977 p.32
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15. ‘Another difficulty in analysing connotation is
that there is no particular analytical language
corresponding to the particularity of its
signifieds - how are the signifieds
of connotation to be named ?’
Roland Barthes ‘The Rhetoric of the Image ‘ in Image, Music Text 1977 p.47
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17. This common domain of the signifieds
of connotation is that of Ideology, which cannot
but be single for a given society and history, no
matter what signifiers of connotation it may use.
To the general ideology, that is, correspond
signifiers of connotation which are specified
according to the chosen substance.
These signifiers will be called connotators and the
set of connotators a rhetoric, rhetoric thus
appearing as the signifying aspect of ideology.
Roland Barthes ‘The Rhetoric of the Image ‘ in Image, Music Text 1977 p.51
