The mass : A neglected plastic sign of sculpture

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dc.contributor.authorKruk, Sergei
dc.contributor.institutionKomunikācijas fakultāte
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-07T07:20:01Z
dc.date.available2021-06-07T07:20:01Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-01
dc.description.abstractBy and large visual semiotics still misses a comprehensive method for the analysis of sculp-ture. The paper demonstrates that sculptures have a peculiar plastic sign – the mass. Intrinsic to three-dimensional objects, the mass determines the forces of gravity and inertia possess-ing a potential to suggest connotations of the artwork. Taking as examples the large monu-ments built in Soviet Latvia in 1960-1990, the paper distinguishes among three categories of monuments – static, dynamic and ambiguous – which owe their particular characteristics to diverse exposure of the mass enabled by various constructive techniques. As iconic signs these monuments represent actual identities and events while the exposed mass, as a plas-tic sign, conveys additional connotations like stability, change, motion, standstill, slowness, speed enabling a more nuanced interpretation of the represented persons and events. As a physical property of objects mass can be evaluated by handling them directly but the public is supposed to look at sculpture not to touch and handle it. The current psychology of per-ception holds however that the perceiver goes beyond the in formation given in the visual input, the process of perception depends also on the perceiver’s knowledge and purposes in the contact with reality. Ubiquity of outdoor sculpture suggests that our accumulated expe-rience of 3D artistic objects can be embedded into the elaboration of the visual input thus the viewers can perceive the mass and enrich the interpretation of sculpture considering the meanings of this plastic signen
dc.description.statusPeer reviewed
dc.format.extent1182315
dc.identifier.citationKruk, S 2019, 'The mass : A neglected plastic sign of sculpture', Punctum International Journal of Semiotics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 91-118. https://doi.org/10.18680/hss.2019.0025
dc.identifier.doi10.18680/hss.2019.0025
dc.identifier.issn2459-2943
dc.identifier.otherunpaywall: 10.18680/hss.2019.0025
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.rsu.lv/jspui/handle/123456789/4735
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPunctum International Journal of Semiotics
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectSculpture
dc.subjectThree-dimensional Objects
dc.subjectTectonics
dc.subjectPlastic Sign
dc.subjectMass
dc.subjectVisual Semiotics
dc.subjectSoviet Latvia
dc.subject5.8 Media and Communication
dc.subject1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database
dc.titleThe mass : A neglected plastic sign of sculptureen
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