Softcover
1973 · New York
by Burnham, Jack
New York: George Braziller, 1973. Revised Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. G- (Has moderate aging and soiling, esp. to back cover and last several pages.). Black wraps, 195 pp., BW illus. "This book is an attempt to bridge the gap between art analysis and the staggering variety of means by which art is expressed. Its premise is simply this: firstly, any successful form of art analysis must use the same techniques to explain all forms of art; secondly, effective art analysis must presuppose that the historical consistency of art (call it esthetics) is due to a highly sophisticated but hidden logical structure observed without exception by all successful artists; and finally, such a method must apply this logical structure to reveal how and in what particular sense artistic expression changes, while remaining the same." (back cover).
(Inventory #: 155014)