Paintings and the Past: Philosophy, History, Art

by Ivan Gaskell

This book is an exploration of how art--specifically paintings in the European manner--can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past. No type of human-made tangible thing makes more complex and bewildering demands in this respect than paintings. Ivan Gaskell argues that the search for pictorial meaning in paintings yields limited results and should be replaced by attempts to define the point of such things, which is cumulative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032092637
• ISBN13: 9781032092638
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"