The Paradox of Images analyzes the discourse on pictures by 4 of the most important fashionable French poets and theorists (Baudelaire, Breton, Barthes and Valéry). It stresses specifically the importance of this visible language for the development of each new types of narrative and original important research on problems with representation in art. It also displays upon the integration of pictures inside the area of technical modernity while emphasizing its aesthetic identity stemming from the Western custom of figurative painting.
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