[PDF.18nh] Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing

Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing

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 | #9095488 in Books |  1997-09-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.00 x.81 x7.00l,2.33 | File type: PDF | 312 pages

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|| ||“Concerned with the rhetorical dimensions of art writing, Elkins identifies the ways in which immediate questions about the truth of interpretation are inevitably deflected by awareness of the stylistic qualities of art historians’ texts. . . . Wi

How do psychoanalytic, semiotic, deconstructive, and other interpretations represent works of art? What can they see, and what must they miss? In Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts, Elkins suggests that the philosophic problems posed by these questions are essentially insuperable because philosophy makes demands of visual artifacts that they can answer only by becoming mirror images of philosophic discourse.

Elkins argues that writing is what art hi...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing   |  James Elkins. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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