What is it about?
In this article I revisit the notion of substance of the plane of expression, as found in semiotic studies of the image, and how this notion relates to the concepts of purport and form. The article is divided into three parts: The first section gives a brief history of the various ways substance has been addressed in (or excluded from) image analyses based on Greimassian semiotics and Groupe μ rhetoric. Drawing upon Jacques Fontanille’s semiotics of practices and Jean-François Bordron’s theory of iconicity, the second section concerns the notions of material support, application, and the gestural act of inscription. The third section tests these methodological tools on chemical photography and on digital image-making in order to propose a new, specifically semiotic approach to studying the media characteristics of images.
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Why is it important?
It's a crucial critics to the Classical Greimassian Visual Semiotics that was concerned only with form issues. This paper brings the issue of materiality and techniques back to the surface of the study of the Image.
Perspectives
This paper the matter of images adresses the mediation specificity of painting, photography and is useful also to understand digital images from a semiotic perspective
Maria Giulia Dondero
Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique / Université de Liège
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This page is a summary of: Le plan de l’expression des images: Quelques réflexions sur support et apport, Semiotica, October 2020, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0124.
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