The function of discourse in interpreting art
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1998-05
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Texas Tech University
Abstract
Among a variety of objects human beings experience in everyday life are works of ari. This study examines the sense-making process of human beings of and through works of art. Talk organized around painfings between the viewer and the researcher is analyzed, to find out the manner in which the viewers' experience of paintings is reflected and created through discourse.