Iconography
- the study of symbols
- identification and description of content of images
- Byzantine portraiture
- Peter Burke - ‘Images speak, they are designed to communicate’,
- W.J.Y Mitchell - ‘what images say and what to say about images’
- Marcel Duchamp - ‘the creative act”
Iconology
- the studying of meaning contained within these symbols; the interpretation of the content of images.
- looks at more than the face value of a symbol, taking into account its context - both historical and cultural
- importance of historical and theoretical context - Erwin Panofsky - iconologist - ‘studies in iconology’ (1939)
- looking as opposed to seeing
- using visual evidence to unlock the meaning
My thoughts
It was useful to get the distinction between the two terms and as a graphic designer these two terms are important to know and understand so after this lecture I will go back over my notes and begin to under the two terms in more detail.
