A descriptive mode in art and the issue of a representation
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The predominant for XX century art studies tradition was seriously reconsidered during the 1970–
1980s during the so called «new art history» development, when many received concepts were called into
question. A notion of descriptiv e mode of painting proposed by an American art historian S. Alpers is of
great interest in this context because it allows us to revise the homogeneous development of European
art. While elaborating the concept of descriptive mode of painting, Alpers took under consideration a wide
range of historical and cultural sources thus contributed to the new research approach nowadays known
under the title of visual culture studies. It is not less important that she also focused on the issue of pictorial
representation, which inquires the essence of the work of art
- Беззубова Ольга Владимировна
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