Potential Images
Subtitle: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern Art (Topographics)
Publisher: Reaktion Books; Reaktion
Published: April 4, 2004
Language: eng; fre
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781861891495
Subjects: Cultural studies; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Painting & paintings; Modern Art; Art & Art Instruction; Art; History - General; Art / General; General
Description: "In this exploration of art of the modern period, Dario Gamboni explores the sources, intentions and effects associated with ambiguous images by examining the viewer's degree of participation, the nature of the latent of 'potential' image and its relation to issues of representation and abstraction. He also draws on disciplines as diverse as psychology, semiotics, literary theory, the art of the insane and popular visual riddles in his quest to decipher and interpret the significance of potential images in the history of modernism."--Jacket.