Language of Art History

Name: Language of Art History
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ISBN: 9780521445986

ISBN-10: 0521445981

ISBN-13: 9780521445986

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Authors: Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell, Ivan Gaskell, Ivan Gaskell

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The first volume in the series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts offers a range of responses by distinguished philosophers and art historians to some crucial issues generated by the relationship between the art object and language in art history. Each of the chapters in this volume is a searching response to theoretical and practical questions in terms accessible to readers of all human science disciplines. The editors, one a philosopher and one an art historian, provide an introductory chapter which outlines the themes of the volume and explicates the terms in which they are discussed. The contributors open new avenues of enquiry involving concepts of 'presence', 'projective…

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List price: $40.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/25/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.06" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of plates


List of contributors


Editors' acknowledgments



Art history and language: some issues




Presence




Writing and painting: the soul as hermeneut




Correspondence, projective properties, and expression in the arts




The language of art criticism




Baxandall and Goodman




Figurative language in art history




Cezanne's physicality: the politics of touch




Conditions and conventions: on the disanalogy of art and language




A minimal syntax for the pictorial: the pictorial and the linguistic -- analogies and disanalogies



Index