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Index of Subjects
Michael Baxandall
Description: Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures
Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures
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Michael Baxandall
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1985 by Yale University
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00091.008
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Index of Subjects
Accommodation, ocular, 81–5, 87, 90–91, 99–103, 133–4.
Acuity, ocular, 81, 85–7, 90–91, 93–5, 98–103, and see Scanning.
Attention, 87, 96, 98–103, 125.
‘Brief’, 30–36, 39–40, 44–9, 56–8, 60–62, 88–9, 98, 105–6, 125–6, 133–4.
Cause, 5–8, 12–15, 25–36, 108.
‘Charge’, 26, 29–30, 35, 42–4, 46.
Colour, 4, 38, 45, 65, 68, 77–80, 85, 90, 93, 100–102, 112–13, 129, 134.
Corollary, pictorial, of ideas, 76, 93–6, 97–9, 111–13.
Criticism, 8–9, 48, 135–7.
Cultural difference, 105–11.
Decorum, external, see Legitimacy; internal, see Order.
Description, 1–11, 32–4, 46, 111–16.
Design, 1, 5–10, 44–5, 65–6, 68.
Distinctness, 80–87, 91, 93–5, 98–103, 134.
Empathy, 14, 110.
Explanation, 1, 10–15, and thereafter see ‘Brief’, Cause, ‘Charge’, Frame of reference, Intention, Problem, ‘Triangle of re-enactment’.
Expository moment, 110–11, 116–21, 135–7.
Finishing, 66–7.
Frame of reference, 28–9, 57–8, 109, 131–2.
Heuristic moment, 110–11.
Ideas, Lockean, 77–80, 95–6, 100–102
painter and, 48, 58, 74–104, 107–8, 111–16.
Idiographic (teleological) explanation, 12–14, 114, 118.
Influence, 58–62, 87–9, 130–31.
Intention (intent, intentionality), 41–2.
Interest, visual, 43–4.
Language, 1–11, 111–16
cause-inferring, 6–8
object of, 1–5
old, 111–16
ostensive, 8–10, 34, 116.
Legitimacy, 120 and 124–35 passim.
Market, 49–58.
Necessity, 113–21, 124–35 passim, 136–7.
Nomothetic (nomological) explanation, 12–13, 118.
Order, 120–21, 124–31 passim, 132–5.
Ostensivity of description, 8–10, 34, 73, 111, 116
Parsimony, 120, and see Necessity.
Perception, Lockean, 96.
Problem, 14–15, 29–36, 44–7, 64–6, 68–72, 88–9, 125–31, 133–5.
Process, 38–40, 62–8.
Publication, 136–7.
Questionability, 74, 136–7.
Re-enactment, 14–15, 32–4, 109–11.
Scanning, 3–4, 85–7, 98–102, 123.
Science, criticism and, 12–13, 118, 136–7
painter and, 74–104 passim, 107, 113.
Self-criticism, criteria for, 119–21, 122–37 passim.
Sensation, 96–8.
Skills, vernacular visual, 48, 97, 107–8.
Stances, see Criticism, Expository moment, Frame of reference, Heuristic moment, Idiographic explanation.
Substance, representation of, 45, 95–7, 98.
Tradition, 62.
‘Triangle of re-enactment’, 32–4.
‘Troc’, 47–50, 57–8.
Truth, 116–18.
Understanding, external and internal, 109–11, 114–15.
Validation, see Questionability and Self-criticism.
Value judgement, implicit, 32, 43–4, 72, 101–3, 120.
Index of Subjects