Languages of art:

The book develops a general theory of symbols in the arts, in which «symbols» are understood not as concrete manifestations of an absolute, as in the romantic/idealistic tradition, but rather as objects that refer to other objects. Goodman differentiates between pictorial and linguistic symbols, exploring their properties and how they relate to the things that they denote. Concerning questions of image theory and the relationship of images to language and the world, I find the book a constant source of reflection and intellectual unrest [Markus Klammer]