Artlore
An Introduction to Recurring Motifs Generated by the Study of Fine Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8935386 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gail-Nina Anderson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 145-160 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.2014.921411 |
| OpenAlex | W2018531793 |
| Language | EN |
This article provides an introductory discussion of the ways in which popular perceptions of artworks, artists, and the creative process have generated a repertoire of recurring motifs. Sometimes reinforced by art historical research and documentary evidence and sometimes at variance with all such scholarship, the tropes of ‘artlore’ constitute a catalogue of persistent story types that spring from visual interpretation experienced within a shifting cultural context
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Motif (music · Perception · Repertoire · Scholarship · Visual arts · Art History and Market Analysis · History · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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