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Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity

Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity

Paperback

Art Criticism & TheoryArt HistoryPainting Instruction

ISBN10: 0415919428
ISBN13: 9780415919425
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 28 1999
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.03 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had been in any previous century. Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? uses three models to understand the kinds of complex meaning that pictures are thought to possess.

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