Motifs in Art as Agents of Meaning
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2026
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-75020-3 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-75020-3 (ISBN)
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This book explains how in art history the relationship between underlying design principles in crafts such as drawing, painting and weaving, have been considered in relation to processes of meaning making, supported by the latest insights from anthropology, archaeology and semiotics.
Departing from a metaphorical comparison by Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti between the underlying principles of drawing and weaving, this book will show how seemingly abstract motifs in their realization already acquire the potential to refer to content. This opens a new perspective on the so-called distinction between ‘abstract’ and ‘representational’ and the extent to which various motifs in art can be regarded as representations. Based on recent insights from the fields of anthropology, archaeology, psychology and semiotics, it will furthermore become clear how the essentially abstract elements of art motifs can set in motion processes of meaning-making and as such function as agents, which implicitly emphasize that abstraction exactly shows how representation works.
Departing from a metaphorical comparison by Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti between the underlying principles of drawing and weaving, this book will show how seemingly abstract motifs in their realization already acquire the potential to refer to content. This opens a new perspective on the so-called distinction between ‘abstract’ and ‘representational’ and the extent to which various motifs in art can be regarded as representations. Based on recent insights from the fields of anthropology, archaeology, psychology and semiotics, it will furthermore become clear how the essentially abstract elements of art motifs can set in motion processes of meaning-making and as such function as agents, which implicitly emphasize that abstraction exactly shows how representation works.
Dr. Arthur Crucq, Ph.D. (2018) is Assistant Professor in art history at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. He publishes on representation, style and reception amongst which an eye-tracking study on linear perspective in the Journal of Eye Movement Research (2021).
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Semiotics, Signs of the Times ; 4 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-75020-7 / 9004750207 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-75020-3 / 9789004750203 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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