Shaping of Art History : Meditations on a Discipline

Emison, Patricia

ISBN 10: 0271033061 / ISBN 13: 9780271033068

Edité par Penn State University Press, 2009

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Synopsis :

In this provocative book, Patricia Emison invites the reader to consider and reconsider how past thinkers--from Pliny and Alberti to Freud and Fried--have conceptualized the history of Western art. What a book review attempts to be for a book, this extended essay attempts to be for several hundred years' worth of books in a field: an indicator of problems with the old attempts and hopes for the new ones. It is a defense of art history for those outside the field who question its reliability or even its importance; it is a critique of art history for those in the field who may have been preoccupied with looking at trees but who might be interested in trying to see the forest.

À propos de l'auteur: Patricia Emison is Professor of the History of Art at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of The Simple Art: Printed Works on Paper in the Age of Magnificence (2006), Creating the 'Divine' Artist from Dante to Michelangelo (2004), and The Art of Teaching: Sixteenth-Century Allegorical Prints and Drawings (1986).

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Shaping of Art History : Meditations on a ...
Éditeur : Penn State University Press
Date d'édition : 2009
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : As New