The Semiotics of the Moon as Fantasy and Destination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10272091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Betancourt (0000-0001-5775-1890, Michael Betancourt (artist, historian, theorist, curator), Savannah, GA, U.S.A.., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 408-418 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/leon_a_00919 |
| OpenAlex | W2112120643 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
This essay surveys a 20-year period of the author’s studio-based research into “spatial montage” and windowing, elaborating on his use of space imagery in a symbolic system describing the critique of fantasy::reality through symbols that are still used in the contemporary world—how the mythic dimensions of interpreting the “heavens” collide and contradict contemporary scientific interpretations. “Visionary” art is the dynamic focus, with the Moon as the central icon, providing a direct means for the author to consider ambiguities and complexities of symbolic transformation: earlier descriptions of heavens and Earth provide a visionary subtext to scientific exploration. The author considers himself a “revisionary” artist whose work engages the implicit semiotics of visionary film/visual music to problematize the pseudoscientific theories found there
Aesthetics · Allegory · Art · Epistemology · Fantasy · Icon · Literature · Perspective (graphical) · Pseudoscience · Semiotics · Sociology · Subtext · The Symbolic · Visual arts · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology · Science Education and Perceptions
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |