A Touch of Style: Indexicality as a Mode of (Meta)Representation

Abstract

Based on the semiotic distinction between sign and index, the paper examines the genealogical conditions that have allowed the emergence of indexicality as a paradigm of (meta)representation, beyond the principles of mimesis and verisimilitude in sixteenth-century image-making processes. It also investigates how current digital reproductions offer new venues of autoreferential analysis of art-related images.

Presenters

Ricardo De Mambro Santos
Chair, Art History, Willamette University, Oregon, United States

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

The Form of the Image

KEYWORDS

RENAISSANCE ART AND THEORY, SEMIOTICS, INDEXICALITY, DIGITAL REPRODUCTION, STYLE