Speaking of Art

by Peter Kivy

As the title of this book was meant to suggest, its subject is the way we talk about (and write about) works of art: or, rather, one of the ways, namely, the way we describe works of art for critical purposes. Be- cause I wished to restrict my subject matter in this way, I have made a sharp, and no doubt largely artificial distinction between describing and evaluating. And I must, at the outset, guard against a misreading of this distinction to which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9024714915
• ISBN13: 9789024714919
• Release Date: July 1973
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"