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Structure, sign, and function : selected essays / by Jan Mukaérovskây ; translated and edited by John Burbank and Peter Steiner.

By: Mukaérovskây, Jan.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Yale Russian and East European studies ; 14.Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1978, c1977Description: xxxix, 269 p. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0300021089.Subject(s): Mukaérovskây, Jan | Aesthetics | ArtsDDC classification: 111.85
Contents:
Aesthetics and general theory of art -- On structuralism -- The significance of aesthetics -- The place of the aesthetic function among the other functions -- The aesthetic norm -- Can there be a universal aesthetic value in art? -- The concept of the whole in the theory of art -- Art as a semioticf fact -- Intentionality and unintentionality in Art -- Dialectic contradictions in modern art -- Personality in art -- film, theater and visual arts -- An attempt at a structural analysis of a dramatic figure -- A note on the aesthetics of film -- Time in film -- On the current state of the theory of theater -- The essence of the visual arts -- On the problem of functions in architecture.

Selected bibliography of Jan Mukaérovskây's writings: (pages 251-266) and index.

Aesthetics and general theory of art -- On structuralism -- The significance of aesthetics -- The place of the aesthetic function among the other functions -- The aesthetic norm -- Can there be a universal aesthetic value in art? -- The concept of the whole in the theory of art -- Art as a semioticf fact -- Intentionality and unintentionality in Art -- Dialectic contradictions in modern art -- Personality in art -- film, theater and visual arts -- An attempt at a structural analysis of a dramatic figure -- A note on the aesthetics of film -- Time in film -- On the current state of the theory of theater -- The essence of the visual arts -- On the problem of functions in architecture.