Journal article
Art history as ekphrasis
- Abstract:
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This paper makes a case for the essentially rhetorical nature of the art-historical enterprise: description is the key act which both translates the object's object-hood into words appropriable for art-historical argument and betrays that object-hood by making the object something other than it materially is, a word-picture. The act of description is not innocent; it is both the product of a series of genres for describing objects and it tendentiously helps the object into an initial verbal f...
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- Journal:
- Art History
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 10-27
- Publication date:
- 2010-02-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1467-8365
- ISSN:
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0141-6790
- Source identifiers:
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199652
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:199652
- UUID:
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uuid:a7e1da27-10d8-4005-8e4e-cf5badae2387
- Local pid:
- pubs:199652
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2010
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