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.
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