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Aspects of ‘physiognomic depiction’ in pictures : from macchia to microgenesis

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

“Figurativity”, roughly paraphrased as that which is not accounted for by the system, is a residue concept of both Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and of Greimasean semiotics. In the latter case, however, figurativity has been related to the second, so-called plastic layer of the picture, which is opposed to the pictorial layer, by means of which the picture is doing its job of depicting something in the world. The plastic layer of any picture is, according to the same conception, like a specimen of abstract arts: it consists of mere spots and lines organized in a particular pattern. A classical art historical term for this vague first-hand view is macchia: but this could also be seen as an anticipation of the microgenetic method, normally credited to Werner. Although the discussion of pictures in Werner and Kaplan’s Symbol Formation (Werner & Kaplan, 1963) is rather limited in scope, the idea of physiognomic meaning, which plays such an important part in that book, and which has precursors in earlier Ganzheitzpsychologie, may hold the key to understanding the nature of plastic language – to grasp in what way the picture is not only less, but at the same time more, than the real thing. It may also give a clue to the establishment of a developmental psycho-semiotics of plastic language and, beyond that, of figurativity in general.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

533-547

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Culture & Psychology

Volym

19

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Languages and Literature

Nyckelord

  • pictures
  • Semiotics
  • physiognomics
  • structure
  • configuration

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (RJ)

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1461-7056