The Language of Displayed Art av Michael O'Toole

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<P><EM>The Language of Displayed Art</EM>, first published in 1994, is a seminal work in the field of Multimodality and one of the few to be entirely dedicated to the analysis and interpretation of works of art. </P><P>This book explores the "grammar" of the visual arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, proposing that as viewers we simultaneously read three different kinds of meaning in them:</P><UL><P><LI>what is represented (Representational meaning)</LI><LI>how it engages us (Modal meaning)</LI><LI>how it is composed (Compositional meaning).</LI><P></P></UL><P></P><P>The second edition features: two new chapters; an extended discussion of Chapter 5 "Why Semiotics"; and an extended version of Chapter 7 with more illustrations of language forms, discourse norms and genres, as well as non-art visual modes. The book is now accompanied by a CD, created by the author and features a virtual gallery of twenty-eight additional paintings with questions to encourage analysis and interpr