Meaning in the Visual Arts – Views From The outside – a Centennial Commemoration of Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968) - Hardcover

Lavin, Irving

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 069100630X ISBN 13: 9780691006307

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1996

Synopsis

The purpose of this wide-raging collection of essays is to explore the phenomenological explosion since World War II of inter-disciplinary interest in the visual arts. The authors, who represent a cross-section of anthropologists, social historians, literary and film critics, historians of science, musciologists and art historians, all took part in a conference commemorating Erwin Panofsky's work. The conference drew inspiration from Panofsky's volume of essays, "Meaning in the Visual Arts", in which the art historian, drawing upon material from many domains of intellectual and cultural history, sought to define how the visual arts convey not only aesthetic pleasure but intellectual sense as well. The essays in this commemorative volume illustrate the ways in which thinkers in other disciplines perceive the relevance of the visual arts.

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About the Author

Irving Lavin is a former professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is the author of numerous books, including Drawings by Gianlorenzo Bernini from the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig (Princeton). His most recent is Past-Present: Essays on Historicism in Art from Donatello to Picasso.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 069100630X
• ISBN 13: 9780691006307
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 414