Malgorzata Gamrat has brought together here some remarkable researches on the transposition of inner life into the arts, against the backdrop of a common semiotic concept: translation. If we consider that the arts translate inner life, this means that it already has a semiotic form, which can be transposed into artistic expressions. The issue is the production of new cultural meanings. And Lotman has taught us that the more difficult the translation, the richer the meaning.

Jacques Fontanille, President of the International Association of Semiotics, University of Limoges, France

The rich collective volume edited by Malgorzata Gamrat attracts immediately. This is a book everyone craves to read. The integration of semiotic and psychological thinking about and with art, and what art's work can do to its viewers, brings the cultural process of our contact with art into an understanding of why it is we are so keen to be with art. And the approaches are so diverse, so interdisciplinary, that the reader will learn enormously from it.

Mieke Bal, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis