Semiotics of Visual Language

Informationen zum Autor Fernande Saint-Martin Klappentext The result is a completely new approach for scholars and practitioners of the visual arts eager to decode the many forms of visual communication. Zusammenfassung Elucidates a syntax of visual language that sheds light on nonverbal language as a form of representation and communication. This book describes the evolution of this language in the visual arts as well as its multiple uses in contemporary media. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements One The Basic Elements of Visual Language Two The Visual Variables Three Syntax of Visual Language Four The Pictorial Basic Plane Five Effects of Distance and Perspectives Six The Grammar of Sculpture Seven Semiotical Analysis Appendix I Appendix II Appendix III Appendix IV References Index

Product details

• Authors: Fernande Saint-Martin, Saint-Martin Fernande
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.1990
• EAN: 9780253350572
• ISBN: 978-0-253-35057-2
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Advances in Semiotics (Hardcov; Advances in Semiotics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries