In a message dated 1/19/13 8:57:33 AM, [email protected] writes:
> I have been trying to work out for myself an explanation of how > images work by a "linguistic" method rather than by a "depictive" mode, > that > is by a mode in which the artist or viewer sees a curve in an image and > recognizes that it correlates to the outline or shape of a shoulder, and > another curve correlates to the hip, etc., instead of a mode in which the > viewer sees a figure and recognizes that it in its entirety corresponds to > a > person. > I'm curious, not combative, when I ask this: Why do you call this recollection of the whole from seeing just a part 'linguistic' rather than 'depictive'?
