Hi, Marte, There is another body of research which deals with the term
system : It stems from Michael Halliday's work in linguistics, which has
been adapted to the visual arts by Michael O'Toole 1994 The Language of
Displayed Art London: Pinter Press ISBN 0 7185 1940 X (pb)
Halliday theorised language communication as a systemic-functional model,
meaning that we select appropriate terms from the available systems of
choices (eg., vocabulary, grammar, syntax systems) so as to enable the three
functions of communication: the representational, the interpersonal, and the
compositional. O'Toole explains this approach clearly, applied to painting,
sculpture and architecture. Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen 1996 Reading
Images. The Grammar of Visual Design London: Routledge ISBN 0 415 10600 1
(pb) also adapt Halliday's systemic-functional model.
You may like to see my papers which adapt Halliday's model to the visual
arts, particularly drawing. Go to www.generativeart.com or
www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/tracey and click on research.
Kind regards, Howard.
Dr Howard Riley PhD MA(RCA)
Coordinator for Postgraduate Research
School of Art & Design
Swansea Institute
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Swansea SA2 0UT
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