The Metonymies of the Museum

ISBN-13: 9786209020063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 388 str.

Abdel Hernández San Juan

Opis

"The Metonymies of the Museum: Textual exegesis of visual culture between semiotic theory and postmodern anthropology" is a book that opens new original and innovative avenues of interdisciplinary theory between semiotic theory, theoretical linguistics and cultural anthropology of the museum by developing concepts, categories, notions, terms, parameters and axiological actualizing clearings required for the development of interpretative work, hermeneutic and textual and textualized reading of visual culture phenomena as they are expressed in the museum or in our understanding of culture according to the museum, that is, in different forms of memory and heritage of culture considered in a visual sense, from collecting, restoration or conservation, through museography itself and the visual expressions of the museum in culture, to various forms of visual culture associated with memory, imagination and subjectivity. A crucial book in the opening and development of the new field of Art Theory, Postmodernism and Cultural Anthropology.