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Potential Images
Dario Gamboni
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Paperback. Ambiguity is inherent in images because visual perception is an interpretative act involving memory and imagination. Modern art has made this aspect of perception crucial to its relationship with the viewer. Exploring this topic, this title considers those works of art that rely to a great degree on imaginative response. Num Pages: 416 pages, 141 black & white illustrations, 60 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 281 x 210 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1206.
Ambiguity is inherent in images because visual perception is an interpretative act involving memory and imagination. Modern art has made this aspect of perception crucial to its relationship with the viewer. "Potential Images", the first systematic exploration of this topic, considers those works of art that rely to a great degree on imaginative response. Dario Gamboni concentrates on the last decades of the nineteenth century and first decades of the twentieth, during which ambiguity and indeterminacy became defining characteristics of art. He examines how work by Redon, Gauguin, Rodin, Duchamp and numerous others sought to involve the beholder and reshaped ... Read more
Ambiguity is inherent in images because visual perception is an interpretative act involving memory and imagination. Modern art has made this aspect of perception crucial to its relationship with the viewer. "Potential Images", the first systematic exploration of this topic, considers those works of art that rely to a great degree on imaginative response. Dario Gamboni concentrates on the last decades of the nineteenth century and first decades of the twentieth, during which ambiguity and indeterminacy became defining characteristics of art. He examines how work by Redon, Gauguin, Rodin, Duchamp and numerous others sought to involve the beholder and reshaped ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861891495
SKU
V9781861891495
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About Dario Gamboni
Dario Gamboni is Professor of Art History at the University of Geneva. His books include The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution (Reaktion, 1997)
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