What is it about?
Applying Peirce’s semiotics to the study of art history, this essay explores the order of signification in the Peircean theory and the visual order in Chinese landscape painting. Since the purpose of Chinese landscape painting is not to simply represent the beauty of the scenery but to encode and manifest the philosophy of the Tao, then, the author argues that the process of establishing the encoding system in Chinese landscape painting signifies the origin, development, and establishment of this genre in Chinese art history.
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Why is it important?
The significance of this order is found in re-interpreting the formation of landscape painting in Chinese art history.
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This essay is a revised version of a chapter from my book Semiotics for Art History: Reinterpreting the Development of Chinese Landscape Painting. The book has been completed, I am currently looking to have it published.
Lian Duan
Concordia University
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This page is a summary of: The Peircean order of signification and its encoding system in Chinese landscape painting, Semiotica, March 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0032.
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