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A book review of Sam Rose, Art and Form: From Roger Fry to Global Modernism. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. 208 pp. ISBN 9780271082387.

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  • According to Rose’s post-formalist view, the idea of art’s meta-project is the idea of form

  • In view of the current progress of what has been named the ‘visual turn’ or the ‘pictorial turn’,1 it is exciting to witness Sam Rose’s return to early aesthetic formalist-modernism, which was so passionate about the medium, its appearance, and visuality

  • The linguistic and subsequent cognitivist approaches to the visual sphere have proved insufficient and overly reductionist when it comes to providing a deep understanding of the visual sphere as a field of the analysis of visuality

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According to Rose’s post-formalist view, the idea of art’s meta-project is the idea of form. ‘Art and Form: From Roger Fry to Global Modernism by Sam Rose.’ Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics LVII/XIII, no. Art and Form: From Roger Fry to Global Modernism by Sam Rose

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