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Looking At The Visual: Art As Object, Art As Experience, University Of Richmond Museums
Looking At The Visual: Art As Object, Art As Experience, University Of Richmond Museums
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Looking at the Visual: Art as Object, Art as Experience
October 16 to December 11, 1999
Marsh Art Gallery
Introduction
How do you read a painting? A sculpture? A print? Can they be studied the way that we study books? We live in a very visual culture, but we seldom study why a particular form, color, or image has an effect upon us. Visual art has a language, or series of languages, just like written texts. The languages can be more immediate than words, and they can tell us things about ourselves, the world around us, imaginary and supernatural worlds, …