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Semiotics at the crossroads of art

  • Virve Sarapik

    Virve Sarapik (b. 1961) is a senior research fellow at the Estonian Literary Museum and professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts 〈virve.sarapik@artun.ee〉. Her principal research interests include semiotics of culture, visual semiotics, and the relations between pictorial and verbal representation. Her publications include Language and art (1999); “Picture, text, and imagetext: Textual polylogy” (2009); and “Landscape: The problem of representation” (2002).

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From the journal Semiotica

Abstract

This article first examines and compares three partly overlapping terms – visual semiotics, pictorial semiotics, and the semiotics of art – and aims at the specification of their interrelations. Then, the focus shifts to the problems of the semiotics of art, and the changing mutual relations between the semiotics of art and art history are analyzed. It is important to note that, during the last half-century, the notions of visual art, its ontology, and functions have thoroughly changed and, during recent decades, changes have also appeared on the meta-level of art history. The question is whether and how the semiotics of art should react to these changes.


Estonian Literary Museum and Estonian Academy of Arts

About the author

Virve Sarapik

Virve Sarapik (b. 1961) is a senior research fellow at the Estonian Literary Museum and professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts 〈〉. Her principal research interests include semiotics of culture, visual semiotics, and the relations between pictorial and verbal representation. Her publications include Language and art (1999); “Picture, text, and imagetext: Textual polylogy” (2009); and “Landscape: The problem of representation” (2002).

Published Online: 2013-06-07
Published in Print: 2013-06-06

©[2013] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston

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