Come possono le opere d’arte avere significato? Le tassonomie nei linguaggi artistici

Abstract

This article aims to answer the question: how can works of art have meaning? We will demonstrate that taxonomic action allows us to apply categories of analysis to the observed object, in our case, an artistic object that, in the examples, we limit to cinematographic works of art. The categories of analysis make it possible to identify effects of meaning through which the process of signification moves. Therefore, the attribution of meaning to works of art (the initial question) passes through a taxonomic approach that allows the expressive matter to be organized into codes (or categories) on which both the (internal) discourse of the work of art, of the film to stay with our examples, and the (external) discourse on the work of art, film criticism in this case. Therefore, works of art can have a meaning because discourses on art are organized into recognized and shared categories and classified in a taxonomic way.