Why are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity
What is it about modern life that makes us see enigmas and puzzles in images? Has our world become more complex or are we struggling to make meaning where there is none?
Cover Credit: Detail from Saint Sebastian, by Andrea Mantegna, c.1460. Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Photo courtesy of Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY.