[PDF.54ek] Why are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity

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

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||0 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Soulaf Abas|Thank you!|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Curious|By Wayne Dynes|This is curious book. The main part has some value as a discussion of paintings that have proven difficult to interpret iconographically, including such famous specimens as Botticelli's Primavera, Giorgione's Tempesta|From Publishers Weekly|Plato shrewdly noticed that a painting loses its liveliness the moment the viewer confronts its "most majestic silence." In this book, Elkins shows how "dire anxiety in the face of pictures" has induced a crisis in recent art criticism. Sp

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: the affinity between the meanings of paintings and jigsaw-puzzles; the contemporary interest in ambiguity and 'levels of meaning'; and the penchant many have to ...

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