Ekphrasis and the Picture Gallery

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Preface XI
4. Percepts and Concepts of Visual Semiosis
5. Visual Semiotics, Pragmatics, and Communication 3
6. Iconism 21
7. Visual Iconicity in Literature; or, What is Werther? 47
8. On Pictorality: The Impact of the Perceptual Model in the Development of Pictorial Semiotics 67
9. The Psychosemiotics of Picture Perception
10. The Construction of Pictorial Meaning 109
11. The Perception of Motion Patterns 163
12. Picture Perception 185
13. Polysensoriality in Plastic Symbolic Discourses 217
14. Visual Perceptual Organization 235
15. The Subjective Processing of Visual Structures
16. The Two Sources of Cognition 253
17. Enunciation 261
18. Perspective, Point of View, and Symbolism 283
19. Subject in Structure: A Comeback? 317
20. Synesthetic Effects 335
21. Relations between Verbal and Visual Semiotics
22. Hand and Mind 351
23. Verbal and Visual Semantics 375
24. Ekphrasis and the Picture Gallery 403
25. Cognitive Linguistics and Prototypes 423
26. Visual Semiotics, the Body, and Gestures
27. The Status of Image in the Therapeutic Relation 445
28. Gesture Universals: Material and Formal Constraints 475
29. Visual Semiotics and Space
30. Space, Form, and Substance 493
31. Semiotics of Objects Revisited 515
32. Et in Arcadia Ego: A Spatial and Visual Analysis of the Urban Middle Space 537
33. Other Varieties of Visual Meaning
34. Performing Arts, Visual Arts 561
35. Toward a General Rhetoric of Visual Statements: Interaction between Plastic and Iconic Signs 581
36. The Transformation of Traditional Histories of Representation: An Introduction 601
37. New Visual Technologies/New Society
38. The Future of Imaging Science 609
39. The Iconosphere and the New Mecanographic Media 643
40. Index 655