Dear Peter, list,
The surprising fact, “Holy Family as present-day refugees from the Middle East”, is observed; But if “Holy family from Buckingham Palace” were true, C would be a matter of course.. Best, Jerry R On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Edwina Taborsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter - in my view, semiotics has nothing to say about such an analogy - > for that is all it is: a 'metaphoric' analogy. Saussure's semiology - which > has nothing to do with Peircean semiotics - would be better suited, but > even then, I don't see the rationale for using such a conceptual > infrastructure [semiology] for it suggests, possibly, more to the reality > than exists. I consider it a simple metaphoric analogy - and would even be > cautious about implying some metaphysical 'holiness' to the ugly realities > of war. > > > Edwina Taborsky > > > > On Thu 28/12/17 2:33 PM , "Skagestad, Peter" [email protected] sent: > > Listers, > > > I have a somewhat unusual question. My sister is writing an Art History > thesis on nativity scenes and their contemporary relevance. An example is > one at a street mission in Trondheim, Norway, depicting the Holy Family as > present-day refugees from the Middle East. Now the question is what, if > anything, might semiotics have to say about such depiction? The answer may > be obvious, but it escapes me, at least for the moment. Any suggestions? > > > Cheers, > > Peter > > > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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