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Architecture, meaning and significance1
Traditionally, the arts have been divided into the representational and the abstract. Representational arts are those which are about the world, such as painting and literature; abstract arts are those which are not, such as architecture and music. It is possible to describe the ways in which a representational art is ‘about the world’ and so to define its content, but this is supposedly impossible with abstract arts because they are void of content. Is this conservative view justifiable? Those arts which might be considered essentially representational need not be: abstract paintings do not depict and concrete poetry does not describe. Moreover, non‐representational arts can be held to be ‘about the world’ in some way and can therefore be attributed some sort of ‘content’: music has an emotional content, and architecture has been said to have significant content. This paper considers a number of views which attempt to provide architecture with a content.
Architecture, meaning and significance1
Traditionally, the arts have been divided into the representational and the abstract. Representational arts are those which are about the world, such as painting and literature; abstract arts are those which are not, such as architecture and music. It is possible to describe the ways in which a representational art is ‘about the world’ and so to define its content, but this is supposedly impossible with abstract arts because they are void of content. Is this conservative view justifiable? Those arts which might be considered essentially representational need not be: abstract paintings do not depict and concrete poetry does not describe. Moreover, non‐representational arts can be held to be ‘about the world’ in some way and can therefore be attributed some sort of ‘content’: music has an emotional content, and architecture has been said to have significant content. This paper considers a number of views which attempt to provide architecture with a content.
Architecture, meaning and significance1
Winters, Edward (author)
The Journal of Architecture ; 1 ; 39-47
1996-01-01
9 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
Unknown
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