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The Advertising Image: Total Language?

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The Advertising Image: Total Language?

Vincent Guillot —

The cult of the image and its omnipresence on ever-multiplying screens, the weakening of rhetoric in the public space, the proliferation of signifying logos and pictograms that need no translation... The thesis of the “civilisation of the image” is gaining ground, where the visual plays the role of total language and words are entirely disqualified.

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