Reinterpreting Landscape

Download or read book Semiotics for Art History written by Lian Duan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading art from a semiotic perspective, this book offers a new interpretation of the development of Chinese landscape painting and outlines a new framework for contemporary semiotics and critical theory. It will appeal to those interested in visual art, Chinese studies, critical theory, semiotics, and other relevant fields, and will allow the reader to learn how to put theory into the practice of studying art, how to give new life to an important theory, and how to acquire a new point of view in appreciating and enjoying art with a certain critical theory.