The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing
- ISBN-10
- 0300117264
- ISBN-13
- 9780300117264
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Authors
- Timothy J. Clark, T. J. Clark
Description
Why do we keep returning to certain pictures? What is it we are looking for? How does our understanding of an image change over time? This investigates the nature of visual complexity, the capacity of certain images to sustain repeated attention, and how pictures respond and resist their viewers' wishes.
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