Maurer, DieterRiboni, ClaudiaGujer, Birute2021-08-042021-08-042009https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/17510The phenomenological findings presented in the first article, "Early Pictures in Ontogeny", suggest theses relating to the definition of the picture, including its genetic character. These theses centre around scepticism about the view that copy and convention represent primary bases for twodimensional products of no physical use, and that their own qualities were of either a material or ›merely‹ motoric or ›merely‹ sensory nature. Our propositions insist on the genetic and – even though not exclusively – universal character of early graphic products, and also their quality of having to be understood as two-dimensional phenomena, which means that they cannot be completely described as material or motoric or sensory. [English version of the article „Bildgenese und Bildbegriff“ from the same issue]engIn CopyrightBildtheorieSemiotikimage theorysemiotics79110.25969/mediarep/166211614-0885