ARTH 2220 Study Guide - Connotation, Louis Althusser, Antonio Gramsci
15 Apr 2013
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The act of portraying, depicting, symbolizing, or presenting the like-ness of something. Language, the visual arts such as painting and sculpture, and media such as photography, television, and film are systems of representation that function to depict and symbolize aspects of the real world. Representation is often seen as distinct from simulation in that a representation declares itself to be re-presenting some aspect of real, whereas a simulation has no necessary referent in the real. A theory of signs, sometimes called semiology, concerned with the ways in which (words, images, and objects) are vehicles for meaning. Semiotics is a tool for analyzing the signs of a particular culture and how meaning is produced within a particular cultural context. Just as languages communicate through words organized into sentences, other practices in culture are treated by semiotic theory as languages made up of basic elements and the rules for combining them.
