Das Funções Narrativas ao Aspectual nos Ícones Visuais: notas sobre modos de interpretar imagens

Abstract

This article intends to establish an update of the theoretic views that found our research on the discoursive models of visual representations in contemporary media culture: departing from Barthes’ ideas on the method of structuralism for the analysis of narrative, we seek to correlate it with some aspects of the semiotic approaches on the textual regimes of visual representations, altogether with the perspectives of the sciences of art in the same matter. We’re specialy interested in evaluating the relationships between the representational regimes of visual icons and the perceptual structures with which they are related to: in Umberto Eco’s views, it is the questions of the relative dependence of iconographical codes of visual representation in respect to perceptual codes; we also try to explore the notion of aspectuality, as a central one in contemporary aesthetic theories, construed as a key to the theoretical approaches on these relationships between image reading and perception.