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Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity
Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity
Author: James Elkins
With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had been in any previous century. Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? uses three models to understand the kinds of complex meaning that pictures are thought to possess: the affinity between the meanings o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780415919418
ISBN-10: 041591941X
Publication Date: 7/1999
Pages: 302
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Library Binding
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