Detail (work of art)

A detail is distinct from the general composition of a work of art.^[1] The art historian Jennifer Raab of Yale University describes it as inherently contradictory: "it can delineate difference or emphasize unity".^[2] She furthers that "the detail always points away from itself to something else–to other parts of a picture, to the work of art as a whole".^[2]

When a detail is reproduced, this is noted in the work of art's caption.^[2]

• Arasse, Daniel [in French] (1992). Le détail: pour une histoire rapprochée de la peinture [The Detail: For a Close History of Painting] (in French). Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 978-2-08-010962-0. OCLC 231856097.

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