The Language of Displayed Art, 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.
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:
- what is represented (Representational meaning)
- how it engages us (Modal meaning)
- how it is composed (Compositional meaning).
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 CD also includes a notebook
for readers to record their own observations and ideas.
The Language of Displayed Art is an indispensable text for those
studying Multimodality, Applied Linguistics, Language and Art.
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