Semiotics of Art – Prague School Contributions - Softcover

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9780262630658: Semiotics of Art – Prague School Contributions

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ISBN 10: 0262630656 ISBN 13: 9780262630658

Publisher: MIT Press, 1984

A vital force in European linguistics and literary scholarship in the 1930s, the Prague School opened up the rich field of semiotics and art. The study of art as the creative use of the sign became one of its principal areas of critical examination, and in this collection of 21 essays this concept of semiotics is brought to bear on a wide range of the arts, including theater, film, poetry, folk art, and painting.

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- "The Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism" " The above collection holds a special place among the recent anthologies bearing on Slavic Structuralism, whether of the Prague or the Soviet variety... L. Mateika's editorial postscript 'Prague School Semiotics' [is] eminently instructive. All in all, a very useful and welcome volume." - "Comparative Literature" " This is a book with three aims. To some degree it serves as a history of Prague School criticism. In addition it constitutes a useful anthology of writing on the arts, most particularly drama, but also poetry, fiction, and the pictorial arts_ Most importantly, it illustrates the applications of semiotic theory to the understanding of art... a good selection." - "The Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism" & quot; The above collection holds a special place among the recent anthologies bearing on Slavic Structuralism, whether of the Prague or the Soviet variety... L. Mateika's editorial postscript 'Prague School Semiotics' [is] eminently instructive. All in all, a very useful and welcome volume.& quot; - Comparative Literature & quot; This is a book with three aims. To some degree it serves as a history of Prague School criticism. In addition it constitutes a useful anthology of writing on the arts, most particularly drama, but also poetry, fiction, and the pictorial arts_ Most importantly, it illustrates the applications of semiotic theory to the understanding of art... a good selection.& quot; - The Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism "The above collection holds a special place among the recent anthologies bearing on Slavic Structuralism, whether of the Prague or the Soviet variety... L. Mateika's editorial postscript 'Prague School Semiotics' [is] eminently instructive. All in all, a very useful and welcome volume."-- "Comparative Literature" "This is a book with three aims. To some degree it serves as a history of Prague School criticism. In addition it constitutes a useful anthology of writing on the arts, most particularly drama, but also poetry, fiction, and the pictorial arts. Most importantly, it illustrates the applications of semiotic theory to the understanding of art... a good selection."-- "The Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism"

Synopsis:

The study of art as the creative use of the sign became one of its principal areas of critical examination, and in this collection of 21 essays this concept of semiotics is brought to bear on a wide range of the arts, including theater, film, poetry, folk art, and painting.

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