Sean Hall
Author of This Means This, This Means That: A User's Guide to Semiotics
About the Author
Sean Hall is Deputy Head of Department and Leader in Contextual. Studies in the Department of Design at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He was formerly a lecturer in Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford. As a practicing artist, he has exhibited at the VA, the Royal Academy, and the show more Whitechapel Gallery. show less
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Esto significa esto. Esto significa aquello: Semiótica: guía de los signos y sus significados (Spanish Edition) (2007) 3 copies
Comment les images font signe. la sémiotique facile: Design, Photographie, Publicité, Art, Logotype (2013) 2 copies
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I picked this book up, because unlike other books I've seen on semiotics, it seemed to have be a systematic approach to the subject, dividing up the field into varies types of analysis and those types into things that are looked at. It also offered examples of pictures and texts for the reader to analyze. Unfortunately, as I always find with material on this subject, postmodernism trumped any systematics, so that it was often hard to tell what the picture/text had to do with the topic at show more hand and the explanations were less than clear. I think in the end while I'm very interested in the analysis of meaningful content in all its forms, I'm basically a structuralist at heart, and don't thing that things can mean anything you want them to. show less
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