| A Theory of /Cloud: Toward a History of Painting Contributor(s): Damisch, Hubert (Author), Lloyd, Janet (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0804734402 ISBN-13: 9780804734400 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: " First published in 1972, this book is perhaps the first and in many ways still one of the most challenging attempts to apply a consistent semiotic theory to the development of perspectival art from the Renaissance to the present day. By no means a period piece, it is a brilliant and systematic interaction that touches some of the most crucial features of the Western tradition." -- Stephen Bann, University of Bristol |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General - Art | Techniques - Painting |
| Dewey: 759.94 |
| LCCN: 2002001376 |
| Series: Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.08" W x 8.92" (0.99 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions underlying the history of art. The author's basic idea is that the rigor of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with which it interacts dialectically: the cloud. |