Compelling Visuality: The Work of Art in and Out of History

by Claire Farago

Explores what we actually see, touch, and experience when looking at art

Typically, art history is an enterprise of recovery--of searching out the provenance, the original intentions, the physical setting, and historical conditions behind a work of art. The essays in Compelling Visuality address some of the other questions that are less frequently asked--and, in doing so, show how much is to be learned and gained by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816641161
• ISBN13: 9780816641161
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.3"