Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures

Baxandall, Michael

ISBN 10: 0300034652 / ISBN 13: 9780300034653

Edité par Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1985

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An "enquiry into the historical understanding of pictures", that is, how our understanding of artworks (and other objects) relate to their creator's goals and the culture in which they worked. Examined in detail are the Forth Bridge in Scotland, Picasso's Portrait of Kahnweiler, Chardin's A Lady Taking Tea, Piero della Francesca's Baptism of Christ. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first printing, listing no later printings. Light wear to book, ink name (art historian James Cahill); jacket shows minor creasing, mostly to the head of the spine, small faint stain (mostly visible internally) to spine & front panel; a few minor internal stains. Text otherwise clean; xii, [148] pages; subject index, references, 4 color & 32 b/w plates (62 images), figures. Size: Octavo. N° de réf. du vendeur v0381

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Titre : Patterns of Intention: On the Historical ...

Éditeur : Yale University Press, New Haven & London

Date d'édition : 1985

Reliure : Hard Cover

Etat : Very Good

Etat de la jaquette : Very Good

Edition : First Edition.

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Book by Baxandall Michael