Practice question · Select all that apply
Which are conventions Berger identifies as visible in the pictures themselves?
Hints
- Three are compositional conventions you can point at; one is not a convention of composition.
- The strength of the argument is that it is checkable against the pictures.
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- A. The woman arranged towards a point outside the frame
- C. A mirror by which she watches herself being looked at
- D. The returned glance acknowledging the viewer
Why
The first three are what makes the argument checkable rather than speculative: you can point at the mirror, the orientation and the glance. That is why it has held up better than readings requiring assumptions about what a painter privately intended.
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