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How visual is visual culture

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Author

Editor

  • Mehmet Üstünipek

Summary, in English

If we admit that, with the exception of language, human perception is predominantly visual, it is reasonable to think that all phenomena conveyed by the visual senses have something in common, but then visual semiotics/visual culture will comprehend much more than painting, sculpture, and architecture. The double coding hypotheses of cognitive psychology, as well as Lessing’s classical opposition between language and painting, tell us something about this basic opposition. But to understand visual culture, we have to start from the varieties of the spectacular function, present in our everyday Lifeworld.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

111-122

Publication/Series

Semio Istanbul 2007. VIIIth Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Istanbul, May 29 - June 2, 2007, Volume I.

Volume

Volume I

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Istanbul Kültur University

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • Hjelmslev
  • meaning
  • visual semiotics
  • visual culture
  • Gibson
  • Husserl
  • visuality
  • spectacular function
  • spectacle
  • semiotic resources
  • theatre
  • urbanism
  • sign

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-975-6957-63-9