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On some problems in the semiotics of visual art: field and vehicle in image-signs / Meyer Schapiro in Semiotica, vol 1 n° 3 (January 1969)
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Titre : On some problems in the semiotics of visual art: field and vehicle in image-signs Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Meyer Schapiro, Auteur Année de publication : 1969 Article en page(s) : pp 223 - 242 Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] arts graphiques
[Termes IGN] information sémantique
[Termes IGN] sémantique
[Vedettes matières IGN] CartologieRésumé : (auteur) [introduction] My theme is the non-mimetic elements of the image-sign and their role in constituting the sign. It is not clear to what extent these elements are arbitrary and to what extent they inhere in the organic conditions of imaging and perception. Certain of them, like the frame, are historically developed, highly variable forms; yet though obviously conventional, they do not have to be learned for the image to be understood; they may even acquire a semantic value. We take for granted today as indispensable means the rectangular form of the sheet of paper and its clearly defined smooth surface on which one draws and writes. But such a field corresponds to nothing in nature or mental imagery where the phantoms of visual memory come up in a vague unbounded void. The student of prehistoric art knows that the regular field is an advanced artifact presupposing a long development of art. The cave paintings of the Old Stone Age are on an unprepared ground, the rough wall of a cave; the irregularities of earth and rock show through the image. The artist worked then on a field with no set boundaries and thought so little of the surface as a distinct ground that he often painted his animal figure over a previously painted image without erasing the latter, as if it were invisible to the viewer. Or if he thought of his own work, perhaps, as occupying on the wall a place re-served for successive paintings because of a special rite or custom, as one makes fires year after year on the same hearth over past embers, he did not regard this place as a field in the same sense in which later artists saw their figures as standing out from a suitably contrasting ground. Numéro de notice : A1969-027 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : GEOMATIQUE Nature : Article DOI : 10.1515/semi.1969.1.3.223 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1515/semi.1969.1.3.223 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=84349
in Semiotica > vol 1 n° 3 (January 1969) . - pp 223 - 242[article]