Dient die Kunst dem Vergnügen von Eliten? Oder besitzt sie subversive Kraft? Worum geht es im Spiel der Kunst? Valerie Moser untersucht das Berliner Kunstgeschehen als soziales Feld. Ihre empirische Studie bricht sowohl mit essentialistischen Sichtweisen auf die Kunst als auch m…
Kunsthistoriker beanspruchen ein Sehen für sich, das über die alltägliche Wahrnehmung hinausgeht. Die behauptete analytische Schärfe dieses Sehens verdankt sich einer Schule, die aus "Übungen im vergleichenden Sehen" und Doppelprojektionen des kunsthistorischen Vortrags besteht.…
Kunsthistoriker beanspruchen ein Sehen für sich, das über die alltägliche Wahrnehmung hinausgeht. Die behauptete analytische Schärfe dieses Sehens verdankt sich einer Schule, die aus "Übungen im vergleichenden Sehen" und Doppelprojektionen des kunsthistorischen Vortrags besteht.…
"Explores the rise of formalism in the visual arts. Employs an expanded sense of form to rethink a range of areas, including the history of writing about art, constructions of high and low culture, and the idea of global modernism"--Provided by publisher.
"Explores the rise of formalism in the visual arts. Employs an expanded sense of form to rethink a range of areas, including the history of writing about art, constructions of high and low culture, and the idea of global modernism"--Provided by publisher.
Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity investigates the study and display of ancient sculpture from archaeological, art historical, and museum studies perspectives. Ancient sculptures not only give us knowledge about ancient Greek and Roman pasts, but they also mediate ideals that i…
"Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity investigates the study and display of ancient sculpture from archaeological, art history, and museum studies perspectives. Ancient sculptures not only give us knowledge about ancient Greek and Roman pasts, but they also mediate ideals that inf…
"Making Art History is a collection of essays by contemporary scholars on the practice and theory of art history as it responds to institutions as diverse as art galleries and museums, publishing houses and universities, school boards and professional organizations, political pa…
"Making Art History is a collection of essays by contemporary scholars on the practice and theory of art history as it responds to institutions as diverse as art galleries and museums, publishing houses and universities, school boards and professional organizations, political pa…
'Reclaiming Feminine Agency' identifies female agency as a central theme of recent feminist scholarship & offers 23 essays on artists & issues from the Renaissance to the present, written in the 1990s & after.
"As the theoretical alignments within academia shift, this book introduces a surprising variety of realism to abolish the old positivist-theory dichotomy that has haunted Art History. Demanding frankly the referential detachment of the objects under study, the book proposes a st…