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Art, pictoriality and semiotics - A reflection on Göran Sonesson's contribution to art theory

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Title: Art, pictoriality and semiotics - A reflection on Göran Sonesson's contribution to art theory
Authors: Sandin, Gunnar
Contributors: Lund University, Faculty of Engineering, LTH, Departments at LTH, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Form, design, culture, Architecture and Culture, Lunds universitet, Lunds Tekniska Högskola, Institutioner vid LTH, Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö, Form, design, kultur, Arkitektur och kultur, Originator, Lund University, Faculty of Engineering, LTH, LTH Profile areas, LTH Profile Area: Water, Lunds universitet, Lunds Tekniska Högskola, LTH profilområden, LTH profilområde: Vatten, Originator
Source: Cognitive Semiotics. 17(1):87-101
Subject Terms: Humanities and the Arts, Arts, Art History (including Textile and Fashion Design Studies), Humaniora och konst, Konst, Konstvetenskap (Här ingår: Textil- och modevetenskap)
Description: This reflection on Göran Sonesson's writings and theoretical engagement in art is also a survey of a set of semiotic concepts related to this area. As a semiotician Sonesson wrote about varying sub-genres like fine art, photography, film and architecture. The reflection is also a personal recollection - as a colleague, friend and participant in the Lund circle of semiotics - of ideas and discussions highlighting the relation between semiotics, art theory and artistic practice. This reflection captures a couple of notions of importance in Sonesson's contributions to semiotic theory relating to pictoriality, art and culture, such as "secondary iconicity", "projected Ego, Alter and Alius", "sedimentation of impressions", "picture subject and picture object", etc. The reflection ends in stating the importance of the specifically Lifeworld-based semiotic contribution by Sonesson to art theory, a contribution perhaps yet to be fully appreciated, and how this contribution also corresponds with how practicing artistsreach out to, but also goes beyond, the art world itself.
Access URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/cogsem-2024-2006
Database: SwePub
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