Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University College London : B - Fine Art
Chapter title
Image, Imagism and the Work of Art, Bild, Imagismus und das Kunstwerk
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Begrundet vom Wissenschaftlichen Zentrum fur Kulturforschung der Universitat Kassel. (University of Kassel)
Book title
Bilder BeSchreiben: Intersemiotische Transformationen
ISBN of book
978-3-89958-710-4
Year of publication
2009
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This essay seeks to re-think the concept of image not as pictorial representation but as a poesis of image conceived as a complex sign while also operating with a singular Gestalt and reference. I take the concept of image from Pound’s definition of Imagism and re-read this through the general sign theory and phenomenology of philosopher C.S. Peirce. Referring to contemporary text-image artworks, I aim to bring a visual arts perspective into the field of semiotics. My central argument developed from a paper that I was invited to give at an international semiotics symposium, Bilder BeSchreiben, University of Kassel, 2007.
