The Language of Displayed Art
- ISBN-10
- 0838636047
- ISBN-13
- 9780838636046
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 295
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
- Author
- Michael O'Toole
Description
Drawing on his background as a linguist, O'Toole analyses in detail a number of major works of art to show how the semiotic approach relates a work's immediate impact to other aspects of our response to it: to the scene portrayed, to the social, intellectual and economic world within which the artist and his or her patrons worked, and to our own world. It further provides ways of talking about and interrelating aspects of composition, technique and the material qualities of the work.
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