Semiotics and Art History
About: This article is published in Art Bulletin.The article was published on 1991-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 252 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Visual semiotics & Semiotics.
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01 Jan 2021TL;DR: The Project of Historiography as discussed by the authors ) is a project dedicated to the preservation and preservation of the history of the East and the West of the Middle Ages and the early modern world.
Abstract: Introduction: The Project of Historiography Section 1: Beginnings - East and West Introduction 1.1 Asian Historiography: Two Traditions 1.2 Historiography and Greek Self-Definition .3 Re-Reading the Roman Historians 1.4 The Historiography of Rural Labour 1.5 Towards Late-Antiquity Section 2: The Medieval World Introduction 2.1 The Historiography of the Medieval State 2.2 Saladin and the Third Crusade 2.3 Family and Household 2.4 The Medieval Nobility 2.5 Armies and Warfare 2.6 Popular Religion Section 3: Early-Modern Historiography Introduction 3.1 The Idea of Early Modern History 3.2 The Scientific Revolution 3.3 Intellectual History 3.4 The English Reformation 3.5 Popular Culture in the Early-Modern West 3.6 Revisionism in Britain Section 4: Reflecting on the Modern Age Introduction I: Revolution and Ideology 4.1 The French Revolution 4.2 The Soviet Revolution 4.3 National Socialism in Germany 4.4 Fascism and Beyond in Italy 4.5 Orientalism London: II Area Studies 4.6 China 4.7 Japan 4.8 India 4.9 Africa 4.10 North America 4.11 Latin America Section 5: Contexts for the Writing of History I: Hinterlands 5.1 History and Philosophy 5.2 History and Anthropology 5.3 History and Archaeology 5.4 History of Art II: Approaches 5.5 The Historical Narrative 5.6 The Annales School 5.7 Marxist Historiography 5.8 Women in Historiography 5.9 Comparative World History 5.10 Archives and Technology
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...For art historians to raise questions about gender is part of an inherently complicating 44 Bal and Bryson 1993; Schapiro 1973 and articles on Schapiro's semiotics in Social Research 45 (1978); Iversen 1990....
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TL;DR: The authors argue that learners' meaning making in the classroom tends to be heavily guided and that images and texts, even those with supposed cultural meaning or focus, seem to foster mainly linguistic competence.
Abstract: This article problematizes current, quantitative approaches to the analysis of culture in foreign language textbooks as objectifying culture, and offers an alternative, semiotic framework that examines texts, images, and tasks as merely engendering particular meanings in the act of semiosis. The authors take as a point of departure developments within the social sciences that have questioned monolithic conceptualizations of culture as well as recent arguments that stress intercultural citizenship and global cultural consciousness as key goals of (foreign) language learning. The authors argue that such transformative pedagogic agendas require a more dynamic understanding of how culture figures in teaching materials and of the processes through which learners engage with those materials. Through excerpts from two English as a foreign language textbooks written by and for Hungarians, the authors illustrate a semiotic analytic approach that underscores two key insights: (1) that learners' meaning making in the classroom tends to be heavily guided and (2) that images and texts, even those with supposed cultural meaning or focus, seem to foster mainly linguistic competence. The article makes the case that images and texts should be harnessed more explicitly to develop a critical and reflexive understanding of culture, self, and other.
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15 Jan 2016
TL;DR: Agarwal et al. as discussed by the authors presente trabajo tiene como objetivo realizar una puesta al dia de los catalogos del material relativo a los Misterios de Mitra en Hispania elaborados by Garcia y Bellido (1967) and Alvar Ezquerra (1981).
Abstract: El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo realizar una puesta al dia de los catalogos del material relativo a los Misterios de Mitra en Hispania elaborados por Garcia y Bellido (1967) y Alvar Ezquerra (1981). La multiplicidad de hallazgos en las ultimas decadas y la revision de las teorias mas tradicionales en este campo de estudio, hacen obligado reexaminar material arqueologico. Para ello, nos hemos centrado en los monumentos figurativos, ya que la Iconografia mitraica ha sido considerada un mero vehiculo para la transmision de la escatologia del culto. De esta forma, el estudio de las imagenes quedaba relegado a un segundo plano, dado que se manifestaban como iconos repetitivos, monotonos, de dudosa calidad estetica. Sin embargo, el analisis de las fuentes literarias, el estudio de los modelos empleados, los diversos asuntos iconograficos y las semejanzas formales con otras imagenes de culto contemporaneas, revelan que los Misterios de Mitra se valieron del repertorio grecorromano para la conformacion de su propia iconografia.
Los primeros autores dedicados al estudio de los Misterios de Mitra, Cumont y Vermaseren, concebian este fenomeno como una serie de creencias procedentes de Persia que penetraron el Imperio romano gracias al contacto de las tropas y comerciantes con los territorios conquistados, a partir del s. I d. C. Mitra, dios de naturaleza solar, encarnaria los valores viriles de lealtad y triunfo militar, hecho que habria favorecido su difusion entre los soldados del Imperio. No obstante, el culto de Mitra en Oriente carecia de la estructura misterica que desarrollaria mas tarde en epoca imperial. La tauroctonia, el icono central de la liturgia mitraica, presenta al dios vestido con atuendo oriental dando muerte al toro con un punal, acompanado de un perro y una serpiente que lamen la sangre que mana de la herida y un escorpion que se situa en los genitales. En esta escena suelen aparecer tambien los bustos de Sol y Luna, junto a dos dadoforos. Si bien en la Betica se han localizado tres representaciones del sacrificio divino, el banquete entre Mitra y Sol procedente de Troia y los hallazgos del cerro de San Albin, ambos en Lusitania, constituyen la fuente de materiales mas importante para el estudio del culto a Mitra en territorio hispano. Los recientes descubrimientos en Lugo, Altafulla, Cabrera de Mar, Puente Genil, San Juan de la Isla, Barbate, Merida, junto a la revision de fondos del Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, han supuesto una gran aportacion para el estudio del Mitraismo en la Peninsula Iberica.
Sin embargo, los monumentos figurativos recuperados no ofrecen asuntos especificamente mitraicos, sino que se trata de representaciones de diversos elementos vegetales acompanados, en ocasiones, por la imagen de un toro o bucraneo. Estos motivos aparecen frecuentemente en el repertorio mitraico, aunque siempre se encuentran asociados a la imagen de Mitra o de los dadoforos. Gracias a la revision de los marmoles exhumados en San Albin hemos realizado una propuesta sobre el repertorio iconografico que habria decorado el mitreo emeritense, mientras que el analisis de otros monumentos sugiere que estos no pertenecerian al corpus mitraico hispano, como tradicionalmente se ha mantenido.
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TL;DR: This paper explored what a particular group of middle-class, white mothers with young children were doing with their family photographs and found that photos were seen as precious objects which evoked intense emotional reaction; on the other hand, they were viewed as banal and trivial, and suggested that it is part of the spatial proximity so central to these family snaps, which the mothers described as "togetherness" This togetherness was also enacted corporeally in a number of ways in relation to the photos.
Abstract: This paper is based on a small‐scale, qualitative research project, which used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews to explore what a particular group of middle‐class, white mothers with young children were doing with their family photographs It was evident from the interviews that this group of women felt ambivalent about their photos On the one hand, photos were seen as precious objects which evoked intense emotional reaction; on the other, they were seen as banal and trivial The paper explores this emotional paradox, and suggests that it is part of the spatial proximity so central to these family snaps, which the mothers described as ‘togetherness’ This togetherness was also enacted, corporeally, in a number of ways in relation to the photos The paper therefore also argues, more generally, that studies of visual imagery need to pay more careful attention to how particular images are engaged with in specific, diverse and multi‐sensory ways when they are ‘seen’
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01 Jan 1986
TL;DR: A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory is presented in this paper, with a focus on the intersection between feminism and psychoanalysis.
Abstract: A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.
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01 Oct 1978
TL;DR: Tropics of Discourse as mentioned in this paper develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism, which also offers original interpretations of a number of literary themes, including the Wild Man and the Noble Savage.
Abstract: Tropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also offers original interpretations of a number of literary themes, including the Wild Man and the Noble Savage. White's commentary ranges from a reappraisal of Enlightenment history to a reflective summary of the current state of literary criticism.
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15 Jun 1987
TL;DR: This book is concerned with the emergence of a Meta-Subject and the role that language plays in the formation of an Origin.
Abstract: Preface - List of Illustrations - Opening - Number, Vision, Money - Emergence of a Meta-Subject - Nothing: Zero - Absence of an Origin - Notes and References - Bibliography - Index
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01 Jan 1985
TL;DR: An enquiry into the historical understanding of pictures is sought not only by art historians but by anyone who looks at a picture in the knowledge that it is old or comes out of a culture different from their own.
Abstract: An enquiry into the historical understanding of pictures - something sought not only by art historians but by anyone who looks at a picture in the knowledge that it is old or comes out of a culture different from their own.
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