Visual Quotation
Résumé
The workshop is devoted to the exploration of the concept of “quotation” and to all the digital processing arising from the definitions. Intertextuality, reuse, different degrees of duplication (literal quote, explicit quote, more or less involuntary quote), different degrees of accuracy, of imitation, or pastiche : all the materials which support this survey will be texts, and for the most, ancient texts.
It could be interesting to show that quite the same mechanisms are at work in the use of images and that the typology we try to build for text-materials may be transposed to images. Furthermore, sometimes, both textual and visual citation are used together, the two ways of quoting reinforcing each other.
How can we use digital tools — and which tools ? — to search for and to analyze visual quotation ?
Some examples taken from the Collection of Greek inscriptions of the Louvre Museum will support the analysis.