Semiotics and Art
August 2, 2014 11:46 AM   Subscribe

"Vampire" is known to be haunting beautiful, making the viewer feel both love and uneasiness, comfort and despair. Art depends on the signs found within semiotics just as much as language does, because without these signs we would have no way of interpreting the meaning of visual art.

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Semiotics as Art: Kosuth The art installation one and three chairs makes an elegant intro to the concept.

What is semiotics in light of today’s theories of media? From University of Chicago

Art and the Semiotics of Images: Three Questions About Visual Meaning
posted by Michele in California (3 comments total) 12 users marked this as a favorite
 
Any good read in semiotics is going to need a good source for semiotic concepts and terms. Try Signo.
posted by xtian at 2:31 PM on August 2, 2014 [1 favorite]


Thanks. Though that's the French (default) version. Here is Signo in English.
posted by Michele in California at 2:34 PM on August 2, 2014


I just grabbed the domain name from my bookmark on Jakobson. Oops.
posted by xtian at 7:21 AM on August 3, 2014


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