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Expresivitatea privirilor în artefactele vizuale
The expressive range of gazes in visual artifacts

Author(s): Costin Popescu
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Groupe μ; visual artifacts; expression; visual semiotics

Summary/Abstract: The ever-increasing number of visual artifacts, of creators of such artifacts invites a search for new ways to examine the recognized richness of expression and meaning of the visual fields, to produce tools meant to investigate their relevance. Visual semiotics is one theoretical-methodological field most interested in this search. Groupe μ has proposed a methodology to help analyze images, and I will try here to detail one of its aspects: to the expressive instruments subordinated to orientation, a formeme (alongside dimension and position) of form (texture, form and color define the plastic sign), we can add the gaze. That is the gaze of character-forms within the visual fields. I thus sketch a typology of the gaze and examine visual artifacts that actualize some of its types

  • Issue Year: LXIV/2017
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 653-668
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Romanian, Moldavian