The shaping of art history : meditations on a discipline / Patricia Emison.

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Emison, Patricia A.

Title & Author:

The shaping of art history : meditations on a discipline / Patricia Emison.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 108 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-99) and index.
Why not just write biography? -- Toward a more chaotic definition of style -- Venturing somewhat beyond Freud -- Rated XX -- The bottom line -- Back to idolatry?

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780271033051 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0271033053 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780271033068 (pbk.)
0271033061 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art Historiography.
Art Historiographie.
20.01 history of the art sciences.
Kunstgeschichte
Legitimation
Kunstgeschichtsschreibung
History of art (science)
Theory of art.
Kunstphilosophie Geschichte.
Kunstgeschichtsschreibung Geschichte.
Konstteori.
Konsthistorieskrivning.
Kunstgeschichte (Fach)

Form/genre:

History (form)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256388
Call No.: BIB 186750
Status: Available

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