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Eyes, mirror, light: History’s other lenses

  • Eduardo Neiva
From the journal Semiotica

Abstract

This review article considers the main contentions of David Hockney’s Secret Knowledge in relation to the semiotics of the visual image. The discussion is particularly relevant for the semiotics of image because it calls into question the paradigmatic and conventionalist assumptions that have prevailed in this field of studies. The article expands the discussion presenting a bio-semiotic explanation of how images are made if one takes into account the anatomy of neurological functions of the brain, it demonstrates how logical inferences of a deductive nature are what typify the depiction and the reception of images, as the result of the interaction of our two visual systems.

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Published Online: 2008-10-27
Published in Print: 2005-06-20

Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG

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