This paper examines the relationship between word and image and the consequences both for the development of art and for the relationship between criticism and art. It shows how an ever-growing mixture of pictorial (image) and poetic (word) registers at the basis of image rhetoric is cultivated and deepened by advertising. The invasion of the image by the conceptual register of the word strengthens the classical dichotomy between sensitive and intelligible, leading to a limitation of the imagination.Este ensaio examina a relação entre palavra e imagem e suas conseqüências tanto para a evolução da arte como para as relações entre crítica e arte. Aponta-se para uma mistura cada vez mais acentuada entre os registros pictórico (imagem) e poétic...