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"In this lucid, sensible and insightful book, Sam Rose investigates interpretive practices common to almost all professional art historians, regardless of their objects of study, their professed ""methods"" and their schools of historical thought. Anyone curious about the ""how"" of art history as an intellectual and aesthetic endeavour will find Rose to be an invaluable guide.--Whitney Davis, University of California at Berkeley It's wonderful to have a book that focuses on what art historians actually do when we interpret art, as opposed to the claims we make about our methods and their histories... Interpreting Art shows how apparently well-understood paths of interpretation are actually half-articulated ideals that are as likely to run away with our texts as support them, and for that reason it should be on the desk of every doctoral student when they set out to write.--James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago"

'Interpreting Art serves as an eye-opener for rhetorical techniques and strategies and is an achievement in literary eloquence and intellectual ability.' Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History 'an admirable book' Journal of Art Historiography 'Rose does a great job in revealing underlying similarities in critical practice, and he furnishes his demonstration with vivid examples from various art writers, most of which are illustrated with figures. The book is thus a delight to read, well-organized and informative.' British Journal of Aesethics

In this lucid, sensible and insightful book, Sam Rose investigates interpretive practices common to almost all professional art historians, regardless of their objects of study, their professed methods and their schools of historical thought. Anyone curious about the how of art history as an intellectual and aesthetic endeavour will find Rose to be an invaluable guide.--Whitney Davis, University of California at Berkeley It's wonderful to have a book that focuses on what art historians actually do when we interpret art, as opposed to the claims we make about our methods and their histories... Interpreting Art shows how apparently well-understood paths of interpretation are actually half-articulated ideals that are as likely to run away with our texts as support them, and for that reason it should be on the desk of every doctoral student when they set out to write.--James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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Sam Rose is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of St Andrews.

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