Discoveries: Signs, Symbols and Ciphers

By Georges Jean and Jean Georges

Signs and symbols represent abstract ideas and concrete objects, providing a sense of number, danger, value, distances in time and space, and even love. Over time, these marks and gestures have multiplied into an immense and complex network of images, pictures and emblems - pictographs and logographs, maps and charts, letterforms, colours and patterns. How does a sign represent something other than itself? How do we come to understand the meaning of a written symbol? What happens when a sign crosses international borders of language and culture? Can clothes constitute a sign? Can colours? Can sounds? This work takes the reader on a journey of discovery through the world of symbols.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810928426
• ISBN13: 9780810928428
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary