A comprehensive history centered around the changing images of pictorial space. This book traces the evolution of the conception and the depiction of space in European (primarily Italian and French) and American painting and the ways in which the evolution reflects ideological changes in society over a period of two thousand years. Unravelling one illusory image after another into their particular elements, he explains the development of new styles and images in painting as a continuous rearrangement of these basic elements. This book follows this progression through the Graeco-Roman period, the Italian Renaissance, impressionism, and the end of modern art. Dunning concludes by discussing how today's post-modern concentration on linguistic aspects in painting demonstrates a change from the former emphasis on space and illusion. This book will be of interest to a wide audience - from art historians, painters, and art educators to general readers who wish to understand more about one of the central organizing principles in all schools and periods of art.
- ISBN13 9780815625056
- Publish Date 30 March 1991 (first published 31 January 1991)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 November 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Syracuse University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 254
- Language English