Language of Displayed Art

<p><em>The Language of Displayed Art</em>, first published in 1994, is a seminal work in the field of Multimodality and one of the few to be entirely dedicated to the analysis and interpretation of works of art. </p><p>This book explores the "grammar" of the visual arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, proposing that as viewers we simultaneously read three different kinds of meaning in them:</p><ul> <li>what is represented (Representational meaning)</li> <li>how it engages us (Modal meaning)</li> <li>how it is composed (Compositional meaning).</li> </ul><p>The second edition features: two new chapters; an extended discussion of Chapter 5 "Why Semiotics"; and an extended version of Chapter 7 with more illustrations of language forms, discourse norms and genres, as well as non-art visual modes. The book is now accompanied by a CD, created by the author and features a virtual gallery of twenty-eight additional paintings with questions to encourage analysis and interpretation, and model answers to these questions in the book’s appendix. The downloadable resources also include a notebook for readers to record their own observations and ideas.</p><p><em>The Language of Displayed Art</em> is an indispensable text for those studying Multimodality, Applied Linguistics, Language and Art. </p> <p>1. Semiotics At Work 2. Bodily Perceptions: A Semiotics of Sculpture 3. A Semiotics of Architecture 4. Semiotics Across the Arts</p>