"Focussing on both traditional and modern media (theatre, fiction, poetry, graphic art, cinema), the essays of Reading Images and Seeing Words show how it is according to signifying codes (rhetoric, poetics, metaphor), that meaning and knowledge are produced. Not the least value of this collection is the insight it gives into the multiple models of word / image interaction and the rich ambiguity of the tautological and oxymoronic relations they embody."--BOOK JACKET.

"Challenge: Create an image out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself. Rule: Use only the graphic elements of the letters without adding outside parts. Word as Image invites you to see letters beyond their utilitarian dullness. It's about discovering the magic behind the unique shapes and infinite possibilities of letters and words. This book showcases nearly 100 of Ji Lee's head-scratching word images, along with tips to help you create your own and share them at www.wordasimage.com."--Page 4 of cover.

Essays on the enduring complex relationship between word and image, from hieroglyphics to new media.

Is it really possible to look out at everything in front of us, all the visuals, images and word pictures, in fact, all of creation, and still miss the main point? Are we missing what God is shouting out to us to see? Are we missing so much of a perfectly designed universe, filled with multitudes of pictures and images right before us, as we hurry through life? Herein lies a much deeper discovery of how much God has laid before us, in declaring who He is, what He is doing through His perfect creation, through His own figurative language, and through an unlimited amount of visual images specifically revealing a God who wants to be known ... and how we are to respond to it all!

Arguing on recent cognitive evidence that reading a Bible is much more difficult for human brains than seeing images, this book exposes the depth and breadth of Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could reform their spiritual lives - how they could literally change their minds.

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Document Image Processing" that was published in J. Imaging