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The semiotics of light and shadows : modern visual arts and Weimar cinema
- Title
- The semiotics of light and shadows : modern visual arts and Weimar cinema / Piotr Sadowski.
- Author
- Sadowski, Piotr, 1957-
- Publication
- London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- xvi, 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Piotr Sadowski's study of light and shadows in visual arts and Weimar cinema is underpinned by the evolutionary semiotic theory of indexicality and iconicity. It is employed to account for the unique communicative and emotive power of such indexical media as the shadow theatre, silhouette portraits, camera obscura, photography and film, as distinct from the iconic media such as painting, sculpture, or live performing arts.
- Series Statement
- Bloomsbury advances in semiotics
- Uniform Title
- Bloomsbury advances in semiotics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Natural Shadows, Represented Shadows: From Optical Phenomena to Semiotic Signs -- 2. Light and Shadows in the Visual Arts -- 3. Fixing Iconic Indexes -- 4. Light and Shadows in Early Cinema -- 5. Expressionist Light and Shadows in Weimar Cinema -- 6. Shadows in the City.
- ISBN
- 9781350016149
- 1350016144
- 9781350016163 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781350016156 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- on1022784428
- 1022784428
- SCSB-9632381
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library