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Morphodynamics in Aesthetics
This book deals with the complexity of art by focusing on the singularity of the work of art. Gathering a selection of writings in art theory and semiotics, it explores the question of apprehending art from its perceptual aspects to aesthetic comprehension and understanding. Theoretical enquiries focus in particular on the dynamics of the perception of forms, the semiotic value of colour, the aesthetic phenomenon of empathy, the function of vision in relation to other senses and its faculty to lead, in a substantial way, to the embodiment of sense. These theoretical points are constantly observed with reference to the analysis of works of art, especially from the beginning of the modern era,...
Signes des temps
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Metarepresentation, Self-organization and Art
This book is about the interrelationship between nature, semiosis, metarepresentation and (self-)consciousness, and the role played by metarepresentation in evolution. Representations must have emerged via self-organization from non-representational systems (found in physics, chemistry and biology). Major steps have been the evolution of molecules, macromolecules, life, and finally cultural and symbolic systems. Representations and signs are therefore parts of a huge, possibly branching «ladder of beings». Metarepresentations - images representing images, language about language and language-use, thoughts about thoughts - constitute a fascinating theme within such diverse areas of research...
The Evolution of Human Language
Wolfgang Wildgen presents three perspectives on the evolution of language as a key element in the evolution of mankind in terms of the development of human symbol use. (1) He approaches this question by constructing possible scenarios in which mechanisms necessary for symbolic behavior could have developed, on the basis of the state of the art in evolutionary anthropology and genetics. (2) Non-linguistic symbolic behavior such as cave art is investigated as an important clue to the developmental background to the origin of language. Creativity and innovation and a population's ability to integrate individual experiments are considered with regard to historical examples of symbolic creativity in the visual arts and natural sciences. (3) Probable linguistic 'fossils' of such linguistic innovations are examined. The results of this study allow for new proposals for a 'protolanguage' and for a theory of language within a broader philosophical and semiotic framework, and raises interesting questions as to human consciousness, universal grammar, and linguistic methodology. (Series B)
The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura (2 vols.)
This first complete English translation, including over 250 full-color images, is a longitudinal cultural history of how art came to be institutionalized in the history of western representational practices.
L'image entre sens et signification
Toujours confondus dans le sens commun, sens et signification sont pourtant des concepts distincts pour la sémiotique qui s'est inlassablement efforcée d'instruire leurs rapports mutuels. A la façon de Hjelmslev, le sens se laisse identifier au "matéria " ou au "support" grâce auquel "toute sémiotique en tant que forme se trouve manifestée". Le sens peut être aussi cette "matière" informe qui, lorsqu'elle est articulée par l'analyse, devient une signification. Il précède alors la signification mais reste, sans elle, insaisissable. Pour Kristeva, la dichotomie témoigne plutôt d'une allégeance affective du sens et du fondement cognitif de la signification. Ces quelques données ...
A Postcolonial Woman’s Encounter with Moses and Miriam
This book is grounded in a theorization of the author's personal story including growing up as a female adoptee of a single parent in a patriarchal context, and current material context as an immigrant in New Zealand.
Sémiotique du beau
A travers une histoire des formes où se retrouvent et se croisent Jacques-Louis David et les rites umbanda du Brésil, Marcel Duchamps et les projets mnémoniques et pédagogiques de Warburg, les écrits de Kandinsky et les peintures de Canavesio, les créations de Philippe Stark et Van Gogh ou encore Giacometti, les auteurs de ce recueil, qui privilégient les moments de crise et de rupture, ouvrent de multiple façon les prolégomènes à une sémiotique du beau.
