Art Culture And The Semiotics Of Meaning

Author : Jackson Barry
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312219679

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Art, Culture, and the Semiotics of Meaning by Jackson Barry Pdf

Do the arts mean? Do all the arts mean? Do they all mean in the same way? Does an art work mean in the same way in which a street sign means? More importantly, do all art works mean in a semiotically interesting way? This book argues for the importance of those formal meanings in the arts which most effectively enrich our knowledge of "the way things are" and train our cognitive faculties to deal with them. Jackson Barry examines the meaning of art works as read through their material and formal constituents using a semiotic approach which clarifies the historical and cultural forces molding these sensorially elaborated "signs." Medieval wheel-of-fortune diagrams, a Shakespeare play, non-objective painting, and a stage set for Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, all demonstrate the interplay between concepts struggling for expression and the available matter and form for their manifestation. At the end, the author considers the biological basis for art as defined in contemporary cognitive science.

Author : Madeleine Schechter
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 9783826039539

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Semiotics and Art Theory by Madeleine Schechter Pdf

Author : Michael O'Toole
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0838636047

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The Language of Displayed Art by Michael O'Toole Pdf

Drawing on his background as a linguist, O'Toole analyses in detail a number of major works of art to show how the semiotic approach relates a work's immediate impact to other aspects of our response to it: to the scene portrayed, to the social, intellectual and economic world within which the artist and his or her patrons worked, and to our own world. It further provides ways of talking about and interrelating aspects of composition, technique and the material qualities of the work.

Author : Morris B. Holbrook,Elizabeth C. Hirschman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110854732

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The Semiotics of Consumption by Morris B. Holbrook,Elizabeth C. Hirschman Pdf

The Semiotics of Consumption: Interpreting Symbolic Consumer Behavior in Popular Culture and Works of Art (Approaches to Semiotics).

Author : Deborah Lee Smith-Shank
Publisher : National Art Education Assn
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1890160253

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Semiotics and Visual Culture by Deborah Lee Smith-Shank Pdf

Author : Christiane Treichl
Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783737601962

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Art and Language: Explorations in (Post) Modern Thought and Visual Culture by Christiane Treichl Pdf

Art and Language: Explorations in (Post) Modern Thought and Visual Culture sheds new light on the symbiotic relationship between art and language by exploring how these cultured sets consociate on philosophical and art-historical levels. Against the backdrop of (visual) semiotics the first section of the book considers the differences between art and language from various vantage points: meaning-making, asking if art is a language, Ernst Cassirer's symbolic forms, Jan Muka?ovský's signs, and Gilles Deleuze's philosophy. The second section of the book deals with the works of (post) modern artists from diverse cultural backgrounds who unfasten traditional linguistic and artistic systems by destabilising the viewer and blurring the boundaries between art and language. The author argues that this is the most productive, cutting-edge aspect of the word-image relationship of that period. Language provides (post) modern art with its thrust and focus and offers a site for critical intervention. The artistic forays the author embarks on cover a wide range touching on Surrealism, Dada, Arabic Calligraphy, and Chinese Conceptualist Art.

Author : Jessica Evans,Stuart Hall
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 0761962484

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Visual Culture by Jessica Evans,Stuart Hall Pdf

A primary resource of key statements on photographic meaning, representation and visual culture. The editors combine classic and contemporary essays from a range of scholars including Barthes, Sontag, Baudrillard and Mulvey. The reader is divided into three parts, which present the culture of the image and the making of meaning; the history and theory of critical photography and the regulation of meaning; and the way in which differences of race, class, gender and sexuality are culturally constructed and represented. Black and white illustrations feature throughout.

Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : PSU:000032889840

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Signs in Contemporary Culture by Arthur Asa Berger Pdf

Author : Peer F. Bundgaard,Frederik Stjernfelt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319140902

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Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology of the Work of Art by Peer F. Bundgaard,Frederik Stjernfelt Pdf

​This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience and aesthetic objects. Written by leading philosophers, psychologists, literary scholars and semioticians, the book addresses two intertwined issues. The first is related to the phenomenology of aesthetic experience: The understanding of how human beings respond to artworks, how we process linguistic or visual information, and what properties in artworks trigger aesthetic experiences. The examination of the properties of aesthetic experience reveals essential aspects of our perceptual, cognitive, and semiotic capacities. The second issue studied in this volume is related to the ontology of the work of art: Written or visual artworks are a specific type of objects, containing particular kinds of representation which elicit a particular kind of experience. The research question explored is: What properties in artful objects trigger this type of experience, and what characterizes representation in written and visual artworks? The volume sets the scene for state-of-the-art inquiries in the intersection between the psychology and ontology of art. The investigations of the relation between the properties of artworks and the characteristics of aesthetic experience increase our insight into what art is. In addition, they shed light on essential properties of human meaning-making in general.

Author : Michael Groden,Martin Kreiswirth,Imre Szeman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421406398

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Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory by Michael Groden,Martin Kreiswirth,Imre Szeman Pdf

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory from Adorno to ?i?ek, providing an informative and reliable introduction to a vast, challenging area of inquiry. Materials include newly commissioned articles along with essays drawn from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, known as the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and for philosophical reflection on literature and culture.

Author : Hubert Damisch
Publisher : PdR Press Publications in Semiotics of Art
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039289801

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Semiotics and Iconography by Hubert Damisch Pdf

Author : Richard Howells,Joaquim Negreiros
Publisher : Polity
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780745650715

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Visual Culture by Richard Howells,Joaquim Negreiros Pdf

"The first part of the book is concerned with differing theoretical approaches to visual analysis, and includes chapters on iconology, form, art history, ideology, semiotics and hermeneutics. The second part shifts from a theoretical to a medium-based approach and comprises chapters on fine art, photography, film, television and new media. These investigate the complex relationship between reality and visual representation." -- Book Jacket.

Author : Rein Raud
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509511266

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Meaning in Action by Rein Raud Pdf

In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and practices that are shared by intermittent groups of people and used by them to make sense of their life-worlds. This theory views culture simultaneously in two ways: as a world of texts, tangible and shareable products of signifying acts, and as a space of practices, repeatable activities that produce, disseminate and interpret these clusters of meaning. Both approaches are developed into corresponding models of culture which, used together, are able to provide a rich understanding of any meaning in action. In developing this innovative theory, Raud draws on a wide range of disciplines, from anthropology, sociology and cultural studies to semiotics and philosophy. The theory is illustrated throughout with examples drawn from both high and popular culture, and from Western and Asian traditions, dealing with both contemporary and historical topics. The book concludes with two case studies from very different contexts – one dealing with Italian poetry in the 13th century, the other dealing with the art scene in Eastern Europe in the 1990s. This timely and original work makes a major new contribution to the theory of culture and will be welcomed by students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities.

Author : Marcel Danesi,Paul Perron
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0253212987

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Analyzing Cultures by Marcel Danesi,Paul Perron Pdf

Designed for classroom use in a number of disciplines, this comprehensive introduction to cultural semiotics is also an easy-to-use reference for those who would like a better understanding of the topic. No other text provides this kind of practical framework for the classroom study of semiotics. Each of the 12 chapters is clearly written and self-contained.

Author : Laurie Schneider Adams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429974076

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The Methodologies of Art by Laurie Schneider Adams Pdf

Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been 'read' in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis, the divining rods of meaning. Regardless of a work's perceived difficulty, an art object is, in theory, complex. Every work of art is an expression of its culture (time and place) and its maker (the artist) and is dependent on its media (what it's made of). The methodologies discussed here (formal analysis, iconology and iconography, Marxism, feminism, biography and autobiography, psychoanalysis, structuralism, race and gender) reflect the multiplicity of meanings in an artistic image. The second edition includes nineteen new images, new sections on race, gender, orientalism, and colonialism, and a new epilogue that analyzes a single painting to illustrate the different methodological viewpoints.