The language of displayed art / Michael O'Toole.
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London :
Leicester University Press,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Semiotics at Work
- Monologues and dialogues
- A shared language?
- Engaging the viewer: the Modal function
- Informing the viewer: the Representational function
- Magical proportions: the Compositional function
- A never-ending dialogue?
- 2. Bodily Perceptions: A Semiotics of Sculpture
- P. Bondarenko's Gagarin Monument
- Barbara Hepworth's Winged Figure
- Auguste Rodin's The Burghers of Calais
- Nigel Helyer's Voyages from Eden to Utopia: Hercules
- 3. A Semiotics of Architecture
- Functions as use, as self-expression, as harmony
- The Suburban Dream Home: 'The Verdelho' (1990), Perth, W. Australia
- Alvar Aalto: the Enzo-Gutzeit Office Block (1960-62), Helsinki
- Le Corbusier: Chapel to Notre-Dame du Haut (1950-55), Ronchamp
- 4. Semiotics Across the Arts
- Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus and Auden's Musee des Beaux-Arts
- The framing of fragments
- Isomorphism and semiotics
- Functional choices in Auden
- Functional choices in Bruegel
- Comparative analysis
- 5. Why Semiotics? The role of semiotics in relation to art history, criticism and teaching
- Competition or collaboration?
- Text or context?
- Systematicity and replicability
- Theoretical explicitness
- Cultural practices
- 6. Modes of Comparison
- Russell Drysdale: The Gatekeeper's Wife (1965)
- A Russian suprematist poster: Arrange a "Red Gift Week" Everywhere and All Over (1920-21)
- Giotto: Noli me tangere (Arena Chapel, Padua, 1304-6)
- 7. The Social Semiotic and the Viewing Subject
- Structure and process
- The social semiotic
- Dimensions of semiotic space and the negotiation of meaning
- 8. Monofunctional Tendencies
- The Representational function: Canaletto: A view for the dining-room
- The Representational function: Andy Warhol: Off the pantry shelf
- The Modal function: J.M.W. Turner: A vision of flux
- The Modal function: Bridget Riley: The flux of vision
- The Compositional function: Piet Mondrian: Form in action
- The Compositional function: Jackson Pollock: Action in form
- Notes
- Glossary of Terms
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index.