SIGNS AND SYMBOLS

COURSE PROGRAM

“SIGNS AND SYMBOLS”

PROFESSOR REINARD

Speech and language. Written language and script. Hieroglyphs and pictograms. Graphic “language” – Introduction to the history of visual arts and forms. Image as cultural memory and information medium – Signs, notations, codes, indexes, cyphers, emblems, symbols – Traditional religious symbols – The functionality of a sign – Falsification of a sign.