Traktat o medalji – Treći memorijal Ive Kordića
The original author's work of the doyen of Croatian literature and culture, built on the basis of long-term research, presents the historical development of medal making in Croatia, where the phenomenon of the medal itself is theoretically interpreted.
The theoretical segments of this book are based on the synthesis of the study of medal-making with the principles and methods of semiology: namely, Mesinger elaborated his theoretical discussion on the medal in a completely original way - using the theory of signs. Semantic analysis and semiological approach to the medal phenomenon derive from the author's domiciled scientific field of activity, philology. Mesinger's comprehensive study is a polyvalent, interdisciplinary treatise that unites different fields, methodologies and discourses - historical art, historical, anthropological, linguistic, semiological - and this with an authentic stylistic expression where the expert-scientific form of presentation is combined with the author's characteristic prose and even poetic style. In a lucid and intriguing way, the author shows how, through the mediation of a today marginal and marginalized, but by no means minor (despite its metric dimensions) medium, a special symbol-making microcosm was established during the centuries long past as a credible reflection, but also a value standard of an entire history and culture.
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