Signs, Symbols and Ciphers: Decoding the Message (New Horizons)

by Georges Jean (Author), Georges Jean (Author), Sophie Hawkes (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $9.67

  How does a sign represent something other than itself? How do we understand the meaning of a written symbol? Can clothes be a sign? Can sounds?
  
  Signs and symbols represent ideas and objects and, over time, these marks and gestures have multiplied into a complex network of images. This handy pocket-book combines scholarship, documentary evidence and fantastic illustrations to provide the story of how we have interacted with signs and symbols across the ages.