The Art of interpreting
By: edited by Susan C. Scott.
Contributors: Scott, Susan C.
Series: Papers in art history from the Pennsylvania State University ;; v. 9
Publisher: Dept. of Art History, the Pennsylvania State University
Published: 1995
Place of publication: University Park, Penn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Art criticism; Art -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Paleovisions: interpreting the imagery of Ice Age Europe / Margaret Conkey; title: The strength of columns and the weakness of theory / John Onians; title: Rape or restitution of the past? interpreting Spolia / Dale Kinney; title: Holy images and other images / David Freedberg; title: Discourses of representation in tenth- and eleventh-century China / Martin Powers; title: Toward an aesthetic of Persian painting / Oleg Grabar; title: Christ in his beauty and pain: concepts of body and image in an age of transition (Late Middle Ages and Renaissance) / Gerhard Wolf; title: Imitation, representation, and the study of garden art / John Dixon Hunt; title: Jack Bush and Clement Greenberg: the Empire and the limits of theory / Natasha Staller; title: Allegorical gardens of desire in modernity: a gendered perspective / Gisela Ecker; title: Wining and dining on the Temple of Athena at Assos / Bonna D. Wescoat; title: Interpreting Kandinsky's iconography: sources in ethnography and Shamanism / Peg Weiss.