| Description |
x, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Formalism, art history and effective historical difference -- 2. More than ornament: Riegl and the problem of style -- 3. The objective significance of perspective: Panofsky with Cassirer -- 4. The fundamental categories of art history -- 5. The abstract image: a theory of non-figurative art -- 6. The containment of memory: Duchamp, Fahrenholz and the box -- Conclusion: Conceptual Art, even...(fundamental categories thereof) -- App. The logical basis of pictorial representation |
| Summary |
"Why are visual artworks experienced as having intrinsic significance or normative depth? Why are some works of art better able to manifest this significance than others? In his latest book Paul Crowther argues that we can answer these questions only if we have a fully analytic definition of visual art. Crowther's approach focuses on the pictorial image, broadly construed to include abstract work and recent conceptually based idioms. The significance of art depends, however, essentially on the transhistorical nature of the pictorial image, the way in which its illuminative power is extended through historical transformation of the relevant artistic medium. Crowther argues against fashionable forms of cultural relativism, while at the same time showing why it is important that an appreciation of the history of art is integral to aesthetic judgement."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-203) and index |
| Subject |
Art -- Philosophy.
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Art criticism -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
2001052964 |
| ISBN |
0521811147 |
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9780521811149 |
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