# Signs, Symbols and Ciphers (New Horizons)

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- Authors: [Georges Jean](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-jean)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1999-01-18

## Description

How does a sign represent something other than itself? How do we understand the meaning of a written symbol? Can clothes be a sign? Can sounds? Signs and symbols represent ideas and objects and, over time, these marks and gestures have multiplied into a complex network of images. This handy pocket-book combines scholarship, documentary evidence and fantastic illustrations to provide the story of how we have interacted with signs and symbols across the ages.

## Editions

### Signs, Symbols and Ciphers (New Horizons)

- Publisher: thames_and_hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0030-087-9
- Pages: 208
- Published: 1999-01-18
- Language: en_GB