Autore
Barbieri, Daniele

Titolo
Annunciazioni, rotazioni e samurai mancini. Il verso di lettura delle immagini e la scrittura
Periodico
Aisthesis
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 5 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 43 - Pagina finale: 57

Not only the vertical direction of images – perceptually subject to the law of gravity and its consequences – plays an important role in their interpretation; the horizontal direction left-right  too seems to foster different interpretations from its converse. For this reason there are subjects and genres of painting, such as the Annunciation or the portrait, revealing some constants from this point of view, in their representation conventions. And for this same reason there are languages??, like comics, where the left-right direction is critical not only for the succession of panels – clearly bound to the direction of verbal writing – but also for the panel’s internal organization. These reflections suggest a cultural explanation of the differences in horizontal organization in pictures, linking it to the habits of writing, while ruling out the explanations making reference to the physiology of brain.



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