Compression vs. expression: containing and explaining the world's art ; [base…
by Onians, John, Clark Conference Compression Vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World's Art, Williamstown, Mass, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Conference, Williamstown, Mass.)
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How do we do justice to art when we treat it not as a discrete European or other regional tradition, but as a worldwide phenomenon with a long history? These essays explore the conflict between the need to compress and the desire to express the worlds art. All those who work wit…
In this intimate history, James Elkins demonstrates that there is - and can never be - only one story of art. He opens up the questions that traditional art history usually avoids.
"This book studies developments in art historical writing and factors which shaped the album preface. The prefaces were written in Persian between ca. 1491 and 1609 to introduce albums of calligraphy, painting, and drawing assembled for Safavid rulers and courtiers. Approaches t…
Credulity -- Reference by artifact -- Germany and "Renaissance"--Forgery -- Replica -- Fiction -- Re-enactment.
Michael Ann Holly asserts that historical interpretation of the pictorial arts is always the intellectual product of a dynamic exchange between past and present. Recent theory emphasizes the subjectivity of the historian and the ways in which any interpretation betrays the prese…
Michael Ann Holly asserts that historical interpretation of the pictorial arts is always the intellectual product of a dynamic exchange between past and present. Recent theory emphasizes the subjectivity of the historian and the ways in which any interpretation betrays the prese…
Fictions of art history: Conference, also titled "Fictions of Art History"…
by Ledbury, Mark, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Conference Titled "Fictions of Art History", Williamstown, Mass, Conference Titled "Fictions of Art History", Williamstown, Mass
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