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2. What are the advantages/deficits of visual mediation of events and concepts in this period? Can images provide knowledge that is distinctive and different from textual sources? How do images either correspond with or differ from their textual commentary? What does this reveal about the combination of image and text? Can representations by their nature capture popular attitudes? Are inherent male/female upper class/popular class tensions either captured or effaced in these images?
 
question 2 Warren Roberts, 6-9-03, 9:50 AM
RE: question 2 Jack Censer, 6-10-03, 1:05 AM
RE: question 2 Warren Roberts, 7-2-03,
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RE: question 2 Barbara Day-Hickman, 7-1-2003, 3:17 PM
RE: question 2 Warren Roberts, 7-2-03, 12:53 PM
RE: question 2 Jack Censer, 7-26-03, 10:17 PM
question 2 Vivian Cameron, 7-6-03, 6:05 PM
Final thoughts Warren Roberts, 7-18-03, 5:38 AM

Subject: RE: question 2
Posted By: Jack Censer
Date Posted: 7-26-03, 10:17 PM

Barbara’s information and insights regarding captions raise another question, it would appear. If captions were malleable, did contemporaries pay much attention to them, at least in their literal form? Did captions have to be interpreted as much or more than the images they graced? Especially for French revolutionary image making, there is on the surface generally a lack of subtlety. Or so it appears to the modern historian. Upon reflection, I think we have been too quick to assume their “obvious” meaning.
 
 
 
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