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Sign after the x

Title
  1. Sign after the x / Marina Roy.
Published by
  1. Vancouver, BC : Advance/Artspeak, ©2001.
Author
  1. Roy, Marina.

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Description
  1. 220 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
  1. ""X" is one of the most provocative representations in contemporary culture: a symbol of capital, power, excess and illicit desire. Based on the connection between language and "lack," Sign after the X investigates the letter "X" that is used in our culture as part of a complex sign system that encompasses the evolution of language back to its mythic origins." "Including many of her drawings, Marina Roy uses narrative - and the book conventions of the dedication, preface, introduction, postscript, appendices and index - to form a compendium of X words that is part philological treatise on the foundations of image and text, part illustration, part math lesson, and part language primer."--Jacket.
Subject
  1. X (The letter)
  2. Semiotics
  3. Signs and symbols
  4. symbols
  5. Signs and symbols
  6. Semiotics
  7. Zeichen
  8. Graphemik
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-215).