Title: Signs and meaning in eighteenth-century art : epistemology, rhetoric, painting, poesy, music, dramatic performance, and G.F. Handel /
Authors: Jensen, H. James, 1933-
Publisher: Peter Lang,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Handel, George Frideric, Criticism and interpretation.; Arts, Modern Psychological aspects.; Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics); Emotions in art; Rhetoric and psychology.
Abstract: Signs and Meaning explains historical assumptions about eighteenth-century art and performance, and the signs employed. It assumes that how artists thought they made art and how audiences thought they received it was how it was made, received, and understood. Eighteenth-century epistemological and rhetorical assumptions bring together meaning and practices of rhetoric, philosophy, literature, painting, dramatic performance, and music.