Non-genericity and reception of the pictural master piece

Authors

  • Ivan Darrault-Harris Studies Center - University of Limoges

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35494/topsem.2020.1.43.656

Keywords:

Non-genericity, Visual perception, Improbability, Reception of the pictural work

Abstract

The statistical notion of no-genericity, passed on and illustrated
by Jean Petitot, allows to spot, in particular in the representational
pictorial works of art, facts of improbable organization of
the forms. These facts are immediately spotted by the human
vision and establish intrinsic significant entities. These entities
will be, at the level of the later interpretation, invested semioticly,
carriers of meanings not perceptual but conceptual.

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Author Biography

Ivan Darrault-Harris, Studies Center - University of Limoges

Professor and Researcher

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Published

2020-05-04

How to Cite

Darrault-Harris, I. (2020). Non-genericity and reception of the pictural master piece. Tópicos Del Seminario, 1(43), 123–151. https://doi.org/10.35494/topsem.2020.1.43.656