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The Language of Art History

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Part of Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts

Editors:
Salim Kemal
Ivan Gaskell

Date Published: September 1992
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521445986

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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 properties', visual conventions and syntax, and the appropriateness of figurative language in accounting for visual art. The issues they discuss will challenge the boundaries to thought that some contemporary theorising sustains.
- The Language of Art History launched the new series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts (in hardback), raising philosophical issues in relation to painting, literature, drama, music and film
- Kemal and Gaskell are series and volume editors. Kemal is a US based philosopher, Gaskell is an art historian who has worked with Kettles Yard and the Cambridge Darkroom. They have an eminent advisory board.
- Contributors include important names such as: Richard Wollheim (author of Art and its Objects, 2nd ed. 1980), Carl Hausman (Metaphor and Art 1989), Michael Baxandall and Jean-Francois Lyotard
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"...remarkably timely....Timeliness, exemplarity, and range, then, are the strengths of this collection devoted to issues raised by the operations of language in and about the visual arts." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
"Undoubtedly, this collection of essays offers many valuable points in the current dialogue on the atrabilious state of contemporary aesthetics, scores of estimable insights into criticism of art criticism, various brilliant syntatical formulations and poetic flashes, and yes, even occasional near-glimpses of 'art-historical light at the end of the tunnel.'" Art Journal
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Product details
- Date Published: September 1992
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521445986
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 155 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.432kg
- contains: 7 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Art history and language: some issues
2. Presence
3. Writing and painting: the soul as hermeneut
4. Correspondence, projective properties, and expression in the arts
5. The language of art criticism
6. Baxandall and Goodman
7. Figurative language in art history
8. Cézanne's physicality: the politics of touch
9. Conditions and conventions: on the disanalogy of art and language
10. A minimal syntax for the pictorial: the pictorial and the linguistic- analogies and disanalogies.
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Editors
Salim Kemal
Ivan Gaskell