This is the first collection of word and image studies set within the perspective of the cognitive study of interpretation. The editor's claim that pictures and texts arise from the biological as well as the social interaction of individual artists, viewers, and readers with their environments is exemplified by the selection of original essays ranging from studies of Raphael, Titian, and Carracci, to an emblematic portrait by Georgia O'Keeffe, and to drawings retrieved from German concentration camps.

Edited by Ellen Spolsky - Contributions by Ilana Bing; Albert Boime; Christopher Braider; Viven Green Fryd; Meredith L. McGill; Denise Pessah; Elliot R. Wolfson; Tamar Yacobi and Carol Zemel