The“Language-Image”Narrative and the Aesthetic Direction in the Image Times

The relationship between language and image is both a traditional and real problem, which becomes more and more complicated gradually with the arrival of the image times. It seems to have become a common view that image narrative overrides language narrative, which causes many emotional judgments. The illusion of the predominance of image and the rigid conception that language traditionally overrides image lead to misunderstandings. However, due to the inborn ideographic defects of image narrative, especially its own imperfection, superficial narrative forms and generalization tendency, as well as its passive acceptance model and inert acceptance consciousness, it will not replace language narrative. The combination of language narrative, image narrative and sound narrative in the image times will become a normal phenomenon. The deconstruction of the binary opposition between image and language narrative and their mutual integration are the real choice for the “Language-Image” narrative in our image times.