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Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity Elkins, James (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA) 1st edition
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Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity
Elkins, James (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA)
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.
320 pages, 50 illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 28, 1999 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415919425 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 154 × 28 mm · 488 g |
| Language | English |
