Rose, Sam;
(2022)
Interpreting Art.
[Book].
Spotlights.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
How do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism, and accounts of various ‘theories’ and ‘methods’, but this book offers something very unlike the normal search for difference and division: it examines the general and largely unspoken norms shared by interpreters of many kinds. Ranging widely, though taking writing within the Western tradition of art history as its primary focus, Interpreting Art highlights the norms, premises, and patterns that tend to guide interpretation along the way. Why, for example, is the concept of artistic ‘intention’ at once so reviled and yet so hard to let go of? What does it really involve when an interpretation appeals to an artwork’s ‘reception’? How can ‘context’ be used by some to keep things under control and by others to make the interpretation of art seem limitless? And how is it that artworks only seem to grow in complexity over time? Interpreting Art reveals subtle features of art writing central to the often unnoticed interpretative practices through which we understand works of art. In doing so, the book also sheds light on possible alternatives, pointing to how writers on art might choose to operate differently in the future.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Interpreting Art |
| ISBN: | 9781800081772 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800081772 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2022 Images © Author and copyright holders named in captions, 2022 This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Rose, S. 2022. Interpreting Art. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800081772 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | art history, interpretation, theory of art, art journalism, art criticism |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10143209 |
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