Art Culture and The Semiotics of Meaning

CONTENTS
Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Chapter 1
Meaning 1
Chapter 2
Making Meaning: The Physical and Cognitive Materials 13
Chapter 3
Signs of Life: Medieval Schemes of the Ages of Man 25
Chapter 4
Death of a Sign 39
Chapter 5
The Semiotics of Poetry: That a Poem May Mean and Be 57
Chapter 6
The Meaning of the Author: Robert Lowell as Image of an Age 77
Chapter 7
Signs of Space: Jo Mielziner’s Stage Sets 89
Chapter 8
Can Nonobjective Art Mean? 103
Chapter 9
Cognitive Science and the Semiotics of Art 119
Conclusion 133
Notes 139
References 161
Index 173