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ISBN: PB: 9780932171634

University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art

October 2017

216 pp.

24.1x17 cm

72 colour illus.

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Experience

In his noteworthy theoretical essay "Experience", Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that humans by nature cannot fully grasp life as lived. If this is so, how capable are we of expressing our experiences in works of art? Despite this formidable challenge, for the past thirty years, scholarship in American art has assumed that works of art are coded and has analyzed them accordingly, often with constructive results.

The fourth volume in the Terra Foundation Essays series, "Experience" considers the possibility of immediacy, or the idea that we can directly relate to the past by way of an artifact or work of art. Without discounting the matrix of codes involved in both the production and reception of art, contributors to "Experience" emphasize the sensibility of the interpreter; the techniques of art historical writing, including its affinity with fiction and its powers of description; the emotional charge – the punctum – that certain representations can deliver. These and other topics are examined through seven essays, addressing different periods in American art.

About the Author

Alexander Nemerov is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University. His most recent books are "Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine" and "Silent Dialogues: Diane Arbus and Howard Nemerov".