Les mots et les images. Ambiguity and Disorientation in Language

Michele Valentino

doi:10.26375/disegno.16.2025.4

Authors

Michele Valentino Dipartimento di Architettura, Design e Urbanistica, Università degli Studi di Sassari

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26375/disegno.16.2025.4

Abstract

In 1929, René Magritte published Les mots et les images in the magazine La Révolution surréaliste, a series of eighteen illustrations that offered a conceptual experiment on the relationship between text and image. [read more]

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