Against Interpretation: And Other EssaysIncludes the essay "Notes on Camp," the inspiration for the 2019 exhibition Notes on Fashion: Camp at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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... paintings in the caves at Lascaux, Altamira, Niaux, La Pasiega, etc.) The earliest theory of art, that of the Greek ... painting of a bed is no good to sleep on), nor, in the strict sense, true. And Aristotle's arguments in defense of ...
... painting. Abstract painting is the attempt to have, in the ordinary sense, no content; since there is no content, there can be no interpretation. Pop Art works by the opposite means to the same result; using a content so blatant, so ...
... painting and music, don't reflect any interesting concern with changes in their form, these arts remain prone to assault by interpretation. But programmatic avant-gardism—which has meant, mostly, experiments with form at the expense of ...
... painting respectively, I can think of Erwin Panofsky's essay, “Style and Medium in the Motion Pictures,” Northrop Frye's essay “A Conspectus of Dramatic Genres,” Pierre Francastel's essay “The Destruction of a Plastic Space.” Roland ...
... painting of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Art Nouveau in painting, architecture, furniture, and domestic objects—which do more than simply have “a style.” Artists such as Parmigianino, Pontormo, Rosso, Bronzino, such as Gaudí ...