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Just published Images and Outlook on the World through Figurative Writings Conference Proceedings, Collège de France- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettes, Paris, 24-25 January 2008, Nathalie Beaux, Bernard Pottier, and Nicolas Grimal, Editors (Book available in French Only) « Five figurative writings are the subjects of this book: Chinese, Naxi, Mayan, Nahuatl and Egyptian. Five ways of shaping the world, of putting it into picture, of writing about it. Characters were drawn to transmit a word of course, but more importantly a vision. At the same time, they remained legible and recognizable images as such throughout the history of these civilizations, except for Chinese however, whose characters were in the beginning strongly iconic, but then lost their motivation. This strength, this longevity of the image with- in the sign is justified: it is neither an ornament, nor an arbitrary code, but a unique mirror of the outlook of the world that the Chinese, Naxis, Mayas, Aztecs and Egyp- tians had. It is like a key that lets you enter directly into a conceptual universe. This implies that any character, even in its simplest expression, is the result of a process that selects certain distinctive features and brings them togeth- er to form a “stem” on which the scribe can add “flowers”, depending on the context or the time in which he writes. This is why, for each writing, we have been careful to pres- ent signs with their variations, showing the possibility of simplifying them or creating new ones by adding new features, new semantic echoes with neighboring signs or words, or even with the monument on which they were inscribed, demonstrating therefore the richness and the freedom of these figurative writings. » éditions Soleb 5 rue Guy-de-la-Brosse, 75005 Paris téléphone +33 1 43 37 56 58 télécopie +33 1 40 35 80 67 [email protected] www.soleb.com AIBL 23 quai de Conti 75270 Paris cedex 06 Format 160 x 240 mm, 408 pages, ISBN 2-9523726-8-3 June 2009, 49,90 euros. diffusion-distribution Bleu autour 11 avenue Pasteur, 03500 Saint-Pourçain- sur-Sioule, France Phone: +33 4 70 45 72 45 ; Fax: +33 4 70 45 72 54 ; [email protected] www.bleu-autour.com USA et Canada Canopée diffusion 109 chemin du Sphinx, Saint-Armand, Québec, Canada, J0J 1T0 Phone: +1 450 248 9084 Fax: +1 450 248 0681 [email protected] études d’égyptologie 10 Image et conception du monde dans les écritures figuratives Actes du colloque Collège de France- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, 24-25 janvier 2008, édités par Nathalie Beaux, Bernard Pottier et Nicolas Grimal. AIBL- Soleb
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Just publishedImages and Outlook on the World through Figurative Writings
Conference Proceedings, Collège de France-
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettes,
Paris, 24-25 January 2008,
Nathalie Beaux, Bernard Pottier,
and Nicolas Grimal, Editors
(Book available in French Only)
« Five fi gurative writings are the subjects of this book: Chinese, Naxi, Mayan, Nahuatl and Egyptian. Five ways of shaping the world, of putting it into picture, of writing about it. Characters were drawn to transmit a word of course, but more importantly a vision. At the same time, they remained legible and recognizable images as such throughout the history of these civilizations, except for Chinese however, whose characters were in the beginning strongly iconic, but then lost their motivation. This strength, this longevity of the image with-in the sign is justifi ed: it is neither an ornament, nor an arbitrary code, but a unique mirror of the outlook of the world that the Chinese, Naxis, Mayas, Aztecs and Egyp-tians had. It is like a key that lets you enter directly into a conceptual universe. This implies that any character, even in its simplest expression, is the result of a process that selects certain distinctive features and brings them togeth-er to form a “stem” on which the scribe can add “fl owers”, depending on the context or the time in which he writes. This is why, for each writing, we have been careful to pres-ent signs with their variations, showing the possibility of simplifying them or creating new ones by adding new features, new semantic echoes with neighboring signs or words, or even with the monument on which they were inscribed, demonstrating therefore the richness and the freedom of these fi gurative writings. »
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Cinq écritures figuratives font l’objet de ce livre : chinois, naxi, maya, aztè-que et égyptien. Cinq façons de penser le monde, de le mettre en image, de l’écrire. Car, à chaque fois, des signes ont été façonnés pour transmettre une parole, certes, mais surtout un regard. Dans le même temps, ils restèrent des images lisibles et reconnaissables comme telles tout au long de l’histoire de ces civilisations, à l’exception cependant du chinois dont les caractères, à l’origine fortement iconiques, perdirent ensuite leur motivation. Cette force, cette longévité de l’image au sein du signe n’est pas gratuite : elle n’est ni ornement, ni code arbitraire, mais le miroir unique de la conception du monde qu’avaient les Chinois, les Naxis, les Mayas, les Aztèques et les Égyptiens. Aussi apparaît-elle comme une clé permettant de pénétrer directement dans un univers conceptuel. Encore faut-il admet-tre que tout signe, même le plus simple en apparence, est le fruit d’une réflexion qui sélectionne certains traits distinctifs et les assemble, fournis-sant ainsi le « tronc » que le scribe a tout loisir d’enrichir, selon le contexte ou l’époque, de « ramifications ». C’est pourquoi nous avons présenté cha-que écriture en nous efforçant d’évoquer les signes et leurs variantes, la pos-sibilité de les réduire ou au contraire de créer, par ajout d’autres traits, de nouveaux échos sémantiques avec les signes, les mots environnants, voire le monument sur lequel ils figurent, faisant ainsi état de la richesse et de la liberté de ces écritures figuratives.
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Image et conception du monde dans les écritures figuratives
Actes du colloque Collège de France-
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres,
Paris, 24-25 janvier 2008,
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Bernard Pottier et Nicolas Grimal.
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Introduction. Nicolas Grimal, Professor, Collège de France, and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
PresentationoffigurativewritingsandcomparisonChinese Ideography as an Instrument, Weaving Meaning into Reality.
Léon Vandermeersch, Research Advisor, École pratique des hautes études (ve section), Correspondent, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Naxi Figurative Writing. Nathalie Beaux, Associate Researcher, Collège de France and the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology
Selected Naxi Signs. Nathalie Beaux
Naxi Writing and Chinese Writing. Léon Vandermeersch
Nahuatl Figurate Writing or in tlacuilolli, Marc Thouvenot, Senior Researcher,
French National Center for Scientific Research (Cnrs), Center for Indigenous
American Language
Selected Pictographic Elements of Nahuatl Writing. Marc Thouvenot
Maya Figurative Writing. Jean-Michel Hoppan, Junoir Researcher, French National Center
for Scientific Research (Cnrs), Center for Indigenous American Languages
Egyptian writing—Image of the Sign. Nathalie Beaux
Selected Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Nathalie Beaux
The figurative signs in Maya, Aztec, Chinese, Naxi and Egyptian Writings. Nathalie Beaux
ReflexionsaroundfigurativesignsThe Strength of the icon—The Chosen Signified. Orly Goldwasser, Professor, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem; Guest Professor, University of Göttingen
The Figurative Egyptian Sign: Types of Over-motivation. Nathalie Beaux
Chinese: Figurative Writing: Empty and Full. François Cheng,
Académie françaiseFrom the Drawing to the Writing Sign: the Point of View of the Alphabet.
Anne-Marie Christin, Professor, Université Paris Diderot-Paris vii, Director,
Center for the Study of Writing and Image (Ceei)
ConclusionFigurative and Other Semiologies. Bernard Pottier, Professor Emeritus,
Sorbonne and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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