视觉文化:图与图像

Visual Culture: Picture and Image

图与图像是两个不同的概念,其内涵也完全不同。图或称为图片是支离的碎片,不具有可阐释的独立系统与图像逻辑,也不具有叙事文本的性质,因为图不存在图像学和叙事学的意义。图像是独立的编码系统。即它有母题、主题、结构以及与之关联的符号等逻辑系统,通过对母题与主题的分析与辨认,最后进行图像学的阐释与研究。因此,图像涉及到符号以及编码问题,而图不具备这些内容。影视、戏剧戏曲、舞蹈这些表演艺术的截取图,是影像碎片,貌似时间艺术的表演转移为空间艺术的图像,实际则不具有独立的编码系统,属于图,不是图像。

The concept of picture differs a lot from that of image. Picture is fragmentized and is not an independent system and has no narrative text attribute. But image is an independent coding system. It has motif, theme, structure and other relevant symbols. So, image refers to problems of symbols and coding, however, picture does not refer to these problems. Pictures collected from performing art such as film and TV, theatre, and dance do not belong to im- age.