Our beautiful, dry, and distant texts: art history as writing
Auteur :
Elkins, James
Éditeur :
Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN :
9780271016306
Date de publication :
30 sept. 1997
Dimensions :
25,4 x 17,8 x 2,1 cm
Poids :
1048 g
Format :
Sewn
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
How do psychoanalytic, semiotic, deconstructive, and other interpretations represent works of art? The author suggests in this book that the philosophic problems posed by this question and others are insuperable. He argues that art history as writing must be taken seriously for its own sake.