Indexicality and 'The Gaze'

Indexicality: 

• Index In Peirce’s semiotics, an index is a sign that is physically linked to, or affected by, its object. The relationship between sign and object, or signifier and signified, may be causal or sequential. Examples given by Peirce are a weathercock, a barometer and a sundial. A knock at the door indicating that there is someone at the door is another example of a sign as an index. Pointing my finger at a dog is the index of a dog. A high temperature may be seen as an index of illness. (Martin, B., Ringham, F. Dictionary of Semiotics. p.76)
  
• "Notes on the Index" - Rosalind Krauss
  
• Photographs that point to another reference; a photographic document = inscription of time
  Photographic embalming = the suspension of time
  
• Death mask- originates from the greeks; life masks.
  Ephemerality- concept of things being transitory, lasting only for a brief time

Image- Plato has a distrust of images, calling them dangerous and deceitful. 

Artist expose the truth of things through ideology in art.

Ideology -> Study of ideas, their origins and the laws
               -> Culture

               -> Influence

"Knowledge is built" 

The Gaze

"The Dusky Maiden"
The role of the artist is to combine partial truths; not making truths, but making new knowledge.