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The purpose of this wide-raging collection of essays is to explore the phenomenological explosion since World War II of inter-disciplinary interest in the visual arts. The authors, who represent a cross-section of anthropologists, social historians, literary and film critics, historians of science, musciologists and art historians, all took part in a conference commemorating Erwin Panofsky's work. The conference drew inspiration from Panofsky's volume of essays, Meaning in the Visual Arts, in which the art historian, drawing upon material from many domains of intellectual and cultural history, sought to define how the visual arts convey not only aesthetic pleasure but intellectual sense as well. The essays in this commemorative volume illustrate the ways in which thinkers in other disciplines perceive the relevance of the visual arts.
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