Talking Images

Silvia Ferrara is Professor of Philology and Civilizations of the Aegean and Pre-Classical Mediterranean in the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy.Mattia Cartolano is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy.Ludovica Ottaviano is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy.

• ContentsList of Contributors List of PlatesList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Can Images Talk? (Silvia Ferrara and Ludovica Ottaviano)Part 1: The Earliest Images, Symbols, and Cognition 1. Marks, Signs, Symbols: Behavioural Modernity and the Early Homo sapiens (Enza Elena Spinapolice)2. Between Nature and Culture: Interpreting Changes in Human Representations During the Early Neolithic in Northern Mesopotamia (Marion Benz and Joachim Bauer)Part 2: When Images Interact with Writing 3. Images Hidden in Script: The Invention of Writing in Ancient Iran (Kathryn Kelley)4. Emblem Glyphs: Orthography and the Political World of Classic Maya Scribes (Mallory E. Matsumoto)Part 3. Images Outside their Boxes 5. Europe’s Other Writing: ‘Ominous Hieroglyphics’ and Belated Ekphrasis in the 19th Century (Christopher Pinney)6. Aghori - The Voyage of an Anti-Hero: Comic Book Images and the Art of Storytelling (Roma Chatterji)Part 4: Representing Images through Lines, Bodies and Language 7. Art from Calligraphy: Chinese Writing Turns into Pictorial Images, Performative Actions, Design Products, and Graffiti Works (Adriana Iezzi)8. Facial Scripts: The Semiotic Journey of Maori Tattoos from Colonial Gaze to Cultural Revival (Massimo Leone)9. From Expressive Sign to Denotative Sign: On Some Semiotic Passages Connected to the Invention of Writing (Claudio Paolucci)Epilogue: Images Talking Through Time and Space (Mattia Cartolano)Index