Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Yale University Press (1987), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 180 pages
Description
"Distinguished art historian Michael Baxandall here discusses the historical understanding of works of art: how we can discover the intentions of an artist living in a different time and culture and to what extent we can test and evaluate a historical interpretation of a picture. Analyzing in detail paintings by Picasso, Chardin, and Piero della Francesca, Baxandall shows how this inferential criticism sharpens our legitimate satisfaction in the art works themselves"--Publisher's description.
Physical description
180 p.; 9.23 inches
Language
Original publication date
1985
ISBN
0300037635 / 9780300037630