Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?

James (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA) Elkins

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1999

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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.

ISBN-13
9780415919425
ISBN-10
0415919428
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year
1999
Publication date
1999-01-28
Pages
320
Dimensions
154x229x28
Weight
488