Immanence du savoir et configuration du tableau
This work intends to correlate actantial semiotics and the topological approach to catastrophes in order to achieve a qualitative understanding of the organization of painting and to offer some reliable knowledge as to the meaning we can give to the choices of spatial arrangement orchestrated by pai...
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Université de liège
2019-06-01
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| author | Lucien Massaert |
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| description | This work intends to correlate actantial semiotics and the topological approach to catastrophes in order to achieve a qualitative understanding of the organization of painting and to offer some reliable knowledge as to the meaning we can give to the choices of spatial arrangement orchestrated by painters. This will require our acceptance that painting is seen as passage and continuity and not as cutting and recognition.René Thom associates each type of elementary catastrophe with a linguistic type of archetypal morphology. According to Jean Petitot, the “actants must be conceived as positional values […] as relational entities of a topological nature”; they must be “configurationally defined” by positions. Locations, positions “have meaning in themselves compared to one another”.Associating respectively René Thom’s cusp and the three umbilic catastrophes with the work of Van der Weiden, Rubens, Poussin and Memling, we demonstrate that what is at stake in these works is not only the representation of a (hi)story, a narrative, an action or a myth, but also the presentation of four singular spatial and meaning structures. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ab9ee07ac4a948bd9fbfa02735ea52202022-12-22T01:20:51ZengUniversité de liègeSignata2032-98062019-06-011010.4000/signata.2315Immanence du savoir et configuration du tableauLucien MassaertThis work intends to correlate actantial semiotics and the topological approach to catastrophes in order to achieve a qualitative understanding of the organization of painting and to offer some reliable knowledge as to the meaning we can give to the choices of spatial arrangement orchestrated by painters. This will require our acceptance that painting is seen as passage and continuity and not as cutting and recognition.René Thom associates each type of elementary catastrophe with a linguistic type of archetypal morphology. According to Jean Petitot, the “actants must be conceived as positional values […] as relational entities of a topological nature”; they must be “configurationally defined” by positions. Locations, positions “have meaning in themselves compared to one another”.Associating respectively René Thom’s cusp and the three umbilic catastrophes with the work of Van der Weiden, Rubens, Poussin and Memling, we demonstrate that what is at stake in these works is not only the representation of a (hi)story, a narrative, an action or a myth, but also the presentation of four singular spatial and meaning structures.http://journals.openedition.org/signata/2315narrativityfigurative (vs. plastic)artmorphogenesis |
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| title | Immanence du savoir et configuration du tableau |
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