Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity by James Elkins

Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity

James Elkins

320 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had been in any previous century. Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? uses three models to understand the kinds...

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