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A theory of cloud : toward a history of painting / Hubert Damisch ; translated by Janet Lloyd.
Fine Arts Library ND1140 .D2813 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Damisch, Hubert.
- Series:
- Cultural memory in the present
- Standardized Title:
- Théorie du nuage. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Painting--Philosophy.
- Painting.
- Clouds in art.
- Composition (Art).
- Physical Description:
- x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Sign and symbol
- Sign and representation
- Syntactical space
- The powers of the continuum
- Our sheet's white care.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0804734402
- 0804734399
- OCLC:
- 50617009
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