A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike us as indecent ... The text is one of the components of an artistic work, albeit an extremely… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system. — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of interpretation. This… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike us as… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
