ARTH 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Griselda Pollock, Semiotics, Alexa Wilding
3 Apr 2017
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Art historians rarely employ methods in a rigid way, the use of semiotics. Discussion of the red dot in the painting. Mieke ball: the subject is unstable, there is no inherent meaning without the viewer. Bathsheba"s story: king liked bathsheba but she was married so he killed her husband, she was unhappy. 217 great passage, probably on exam there is space for multiple readings, all legitimate. The sign is not natural, it is a convention. Griselda pollock: woman as sign (cid:0) mentioned by hatt and klonk in semiotics. Pollock 182: all the faces that appear in works labelled rossetti are drawn or painted they are representations, patterns of lines, colours, shapes, not transcriptions of a real person"s appearance. Pollock refers to rosetti as rossetti" refers not to a person but as a concept of someone who painted women at the time. A model for rosetti and his wife, also an artist. Important not only to critique art but also texts.
