What Language to Say the Arts?
Fumaroli, Marc / Spieth, Darius A
Taking its cue from Horace's saying "As is painting, so is poetry" ("Ut pictura poesis"), Marc Fumaroli's treatise What Language to Say the Arts? revisits the genesis of the "conceptual turn" in art. Fumaroli argues that the roots of this transition run deeper than the twentieth-century conceptualism of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol. Rather, the origins of conceptual art can be found in the emergence of aesthetics as a distinct branch of phil...