Visual Theory

In recent years there has been a growing interest in problems of theory and method in the field of art history. Semiology, phenomenology, feminism, analytical philosophy and Marxism have all contributed to a lively debate among art historians and have helped to stimulate new research. This volume draws together some of the authors who have been most prominent and influential in recent methodological debates and enables them to develop their views. The contributions include Norman Bryson on semiology and the limits of meaning; Aruthur Danto on description and pictorial perception; Rosalind Krauss on the reception of recent French critical theory; Linda Nochlin on gender and power; Michael Podro on depiction; David Summers on image and metaphor; and Richard Wollheim on the role of the spectator. Each of these major contributions is critically discussed by a number of other scholars in the field.

Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation

Arts & Photography

Bryson, Norman

History & Criticism

HarperCollins, Publishers

Discusses the nature of painting, its relationship to perception and cultural tradition, and its ability to convey meaning beyond mere pictorial representation

Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze

Painting

Yale University Press

Discusses the nature of painting, its relationship to perception and cultural tradition, and its ability to convey meaning beyond mere pictorial representation

Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze (Language, Discourse, Society)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This 1982 book, now recognised as a classic, has done perhaps more than any other single work to change the face of art criticism in the twentieth century. Whereas previous books on French painting looked only at the history of painting as an evolution of artistic styles (baroque, rococo, neo-classical, and so on), Norman Bryson examines the evolution of narrative styles: the kinds of stories paintings tell, the ways they communicate their information, the different techniques of presenting the body as an instrument for incorporating textual messages. The procedure is applied to a number of painters: LeBrun, Watteau, Greuze, David and others, and the author demonstrates that the relation of formal and 'literary' elements was regarded by painters and critics in the eighteenth century as the primary issue to be confronted in the production of a painting.

Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancien Régime

Cambridge University Press

In this highly original book Norman Bryson applied 'structuralist' and 'post-structuralist' approaches to French Romantic Painting. He considers the work of David, Ingres and Delacroix as artists who found themselves within an artistic tradition that had nothing creative to offer them.

Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 5)

Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancien Régime (Cambridge Paperback Library)

In this highly original book Norman Bryson applied 'structuralist' and 'post-structuralist' approaches to French Romantic Painting. He considers the work of David, Ingres and Delacroix as artists who found themselves within an artistic tradition that had nothing creative to offer them.

Historically and culturally, the societies that produced still-life painting could hardly be more diverse. What is it then, that allows us to place such different types of images within a single category? Norman Bryson writes about this subject with skill and eloquence in "Looking at the Overlooked."

Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting

Harvard University Press

Historically and culturally, the societies that produced still-life painting could hardly be more diverse. What is it then, that allows us to place such different types of images within a single category? Norman Bryson writes about this subject with skill and eloquence in "Looking at the Overlooked."

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Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation

Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze

Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze

Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze (Language, Discourse, Society)

Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancien Régime

Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 5)

Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancien Régime (Cambridge Paperback Library)

Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 5)

Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting

Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting