Semiotiche della pittura: i classici, le ricerche

by Lucia Corrain

226 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

A specialist in modern and contemporary art, Prof. Lucia Corrain is particularly interested in the language of figurative arts, especially painting. In her studies ranging from ancient to contemporary art, she has investigated how a work of art communicates, how it engages the spectator, and what kinds of emotions it provokes in the viewer. She is on the scientific board of the journal Visibile, and has served as the secretary of the International Association of Visual Studies. Prof. Corrain’s scholarly articles have appeared in numerous Italian and international journals (such as Versus, Visio, Visible, etc.); she has also published the monograph Semiotica dell’invisibile. Quadri a lume di notte and edited the volume Semiotiche della pittura. At E.C.Co, Lucia Corrain offers the course “Italian Contemporary Art: 1860-2000”. She also teaches “Semiotics of Art” at DAMS and the Faculty of Communication, and “Semiotics of the Visible” for the laurea magistrale degree in Visual Arts and Semiotics. Prof. Corrain currently directs the undergraduate program in Visual Arts at the University of Bologna.