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« C’est la consécration d’une gloire que de parler sans cesse d’elle comme on parle de celle des écrivains grecs ou latins ou des grands classiques français. La mémoire de Stendhal en doit être bien aise. Stendhal eut, en effet, le courage, pour la défense de ses théories, d’affronter toutes les opinions reçues et acceptées de ses contemporains. Il a dit lui-même qu’il désirait sur son compte la vérité la plus entière et la plus âpre. Il aimait la critique parce qu’il était animé d’un orgueil : celui de remplir noblement et le plus intellectuellement sa tâche. »

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Painting --- Appreciation. --- Painting - Appreciation.

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Poetry --- Appreciation.

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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.

Art appreciation.