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Isi Skripsi - Yulianti Sinar
Isi Skripsi - Yulianti Sinar
• From M. McArthur
Reading Buddhist Art
• Symbolic (semiologies of
various kinds, common
lexicon of meanings, closed
sense, obvious meaning(s))
• Signifying/Obtuse (extends
beyond culture, signifier
without signified, outside
language, disturbs,
indifferent to the story,
against nature, free of
narrative, subversive,
DIFFERENT, point where
“another language begins”)
Ivan the Terrible Screen Shot
Ordinary fascism image
screen shot
Signs,
Meanings
& “events”
(Make Bal)
• Rethinking
encounters with
signs and
meanings
• Narrativity vs.
scenes from
everyday life
with no
iconographic
expectations
(maybe)
Nailhole
NailHole
How do we know what viewers will respond to?
• Differences
between
verbal and
visual texts
• Fundamental
differences
between
verbal and
visual “reality”
(or ways of
seeing)
• Work-reader
interaction
“A picture is worth a thousand
words”
• New skepticism about
photography and “truth”
BUT….persistence of
belief in visual images
– Video of tasar use by police
and death of R. Robert
Dziekanski at Vancouver
International Airport:
– http://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=_3Ggpme5nUA
Larry Berg, CEO of the Vancouver Airport Authority, points to a
map showing the customs area controlled by the Canada Border
Services Agency.
(CBC)
Facts, “Truth” and Design (Kress and Van Leeuwen)
Theories and Images
(Paul Gilroy)
• Denotations
• “reading” visual
representations &
text
• Critical discourse
analysis
August Sander--”Men in Suits”
(John Berger)
P. Diddy (200-2008)
Hipster
“Beautiful Women”
• Ad and Illustration for article about ‘White Trash’ aesthetics by M. Talbot, “Getting Credit for being White” New York Times
Magazine. Vol. 147 (Nov. 30 1997)
Jeong Mee Joon: Girl & Boy babies and
their things
Notions of ‘semiotics’ useful for analyzing
visual challenges to conventions
Marcel Duchamp. Fountain, original (left) and recreations of lost 1917 “Original”
Manet Olympia
Yasamasu Morimura
Communication & Semiotics (Signs &
Codes)
• “Sign: something that stands for
something else in a system of
signification (language, images,
etc.)” (M. Levine 2005)
• “ Code: the relational system that
allows a sign to have meaning, the
social organization of meanings into
binary oppositions, hierarchies, and
differential systems.”