The Language of Displayed Art

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作者：  Michael O Toole & 著

出版社：Routledge

简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 The visual arts such as photography and most other systems of signs through which people make meaning can best be understood and interpreted through three distinct but related dimensions, argues O'Toole (emeritus communications studies, Murdoch U., Perth, Australia). They are representational meaning, modal meaning, and compositional meaning--functions he borrowed from the systemic-functional linguistics of M. A. K. Halliday and his colleagues. He writes for people who, like him, have no formal training in the visual arts, but enjoy visiting galleries, and admiring sculptures in parks or squares. Looking first at perceptions then conceptions, he discusses such topics as Sandro Botticeli's 1478 Primavera, a semiotics of architecture, modes of comparison, the social semiotic and the viewing subject, and mono-functional tendencies. Among the features of the accompanying disk is a virtual gallery. The first edition was published in 1994 by Leicester University Press. Annotation 漏2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)