I assume this is to michael? Though I would suggest that depiction is a semiotic system (one of visual signs and symbols) and therefore linguistic.
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 9:23 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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'? > > -- S a u l O s t r o w *Critical Voices* 21STREETPROJECTS La Table Ronde 162 West 21 Street NYC, NY 10011 [email protected] www.21stprojects.org
