A solitary armored king, reduced to posture, silence, and surrounding void, turns historical death into an intimate psychological image of isolation and passage.
Roland Barthes developed influential approaches to myth, textuality, authorship, readerly and writerly texts, visual meaning, and the subjective experience of photography.
Norman Bryson connects psychoanalysis, discourse theory, visual rhetoric, ideology, and regimes of the gaze within a critical reconstruction of art-historical method.
