| Description |
xvi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics ; v. 54 |
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Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics ; v. 54
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Search for Essentials -- 1. Visual Perception: A Constructive Process -- 2. The Issue of Representation -- 3. Image-based, One-dimensional Representation -- 4. Surface-based, Two-dimensional Representation -- 5. Projecting Volumes: Cezannesque Cubism -- 6. Object-based, Two-dimensional Representation -- 7. Parsing the Object: Analytic Cubism -- 8. Category-based, Two-dimensional Representation -- 9. Extending the Object: Synthetic Cubism -- Conclusion: Multireferential Metaphor -- Cited Works: Catalogue Information |
| Summary |
"Pablo Picasso's continued search for the essential features of perceived objects and his natural abidance to the general principles regulating artistic creation determined his intuitive analysis of the various stages of vision. His exploration of pictorial language is reflected in the well-established periods in Cubism's development. Progressively, objects were analyzed first by their image (or retinal) and surface (or external) features as viewed from particular observer-oriented viewpoints during the Pre-Cubist and Cezannian Cubist stages then by viewer-independent structural features during Analytic Cubism, and lastly, by categorical features during Synthetic Cubism. This final re-evaluation allowed the artist to treat pictorial language as truly arbitrary, leading to metaphorical correlations between objects that went beyond what was actually depicted on the surface of the canvas."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-334) and index |
| Subject |
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Semiotics and art.
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Cubism -- France.
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Visual perception.
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Semiotics and art -- France.
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| Author |
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.
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| LC no. |
2003011160 |
| ISBN |
0820456926 hardcover alkaline paper |
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