248 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is an exploration of how art—specifically paintings in the European manner—can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past. No type of human-made tangible thing makes more complex and bewildering demands in this respect than paintings. Ivan Gaskell argues that the search for pictorial meaning in paintings yields limited results and should be replaced by attempts to define the... Read more
Chapter 1: Why Paintings? Why Art?
Chapter 2: The Puzzle of Meaning
Chapter 3: To Draw, to Paint
Chapter 4: Genius, a Warning
Chapter 5: Material Realities: Trompe l’oeil
Chapter 6: Paintings that Might or Might not be Art: Poland
Chapter 7: Paintings that Might or Might not be Art: China
Chapter 8: The Artist’s Mark
Chapter 9: Conditions of Encounter
Chapter 10: A Painter’s Tale
Biography
Ivan Gaskell is Professor of Cultural History and Museum Studies at Bard Graduate Center, New York City. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of thirteen books, most recently Tangible Things: Making History through Objects (2015).
