La sémiotique face à la médiation du discours religieux

in Semiotica (2012), 191(1/4), 19-36

This work wishes to study how two different media, painting and photography, react to the representation of the same theme, namely the theme of religion and transcendence. It will involve taking as ... [more ▼]

This work wishes to study how two different media, painting and photography, react to the representation of the same theme, namely the theme of religion and transcendence. It will involve taking as objects of study four different cultural objects: 1) religious painting, 2) artistic photography with a religious theme, 3) devotional photography which is transformed into pious images, and 4) the Russian icon. We will analyse the filter-effect produced by these two media in the representation of religious themes. We will seek to explain why the religious theme in painting has been able to assume a sacred dimension which, contrastingly, seems inaccessible to contemporary artistic photography. [less ▲]