Urban Space,Representation, and Artifice |
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Authors: | Peter Allingham |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Communication, Aalborg University, Kroghstraede 3, DK-9220 Aalborg Oest, Denmark |
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Abstract: | This article offers a semiotic approach to modes of representation and organization of urban space. With point of departure
in the art historian Donald Preziosi’s account of art history as episteme of modernity, the aim is to characterise codes that
regulate the representations of urban space in a development from modernity towards a post- or hypermodern condition. In order
to understand especially developments in aesthetic representation, Roman Jakobson’s semiotic mode of “artifice” is reintroduced.
It seems that the application of this semiotic mode is highly relevant to the understanding of aesthetic representation in
general but also and especially to the understanding of the aesthetics of three-dimensional artefacts. The article concludes
with a tentative matrix of urban spatial trends and a perspective to the impact of changes in communications technology on
the developments of urban space. Although the article has a theoretical scope, it refers to a number of examples from and
observations in the urban environment.
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Keywords: | Representation Pantography Autography Artifice Aesthetics |
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