Rethinking art history : meditations on a coy science / Donald Preziosi.

Main entry:

Preziosi, Donald, 1941- author.

Title & Author:

Rethinking art history : meditations on a coy science / Donald Preziosi.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [1989]
©1989

Description:

xvi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-264) and index.
A crisis in, or of, art history -- That obscure object of desire: The art of art history -- The panoptic gaze and the anamorphic archive -- The coy science -- Reckoning with the world -- The end(s) of art history.

Summary:

An overview of the theoretical and institutional history of the discipline of art history which refutes the image of art history as in crisis, asserting rather that many of the dilemmas of the discipline today can be traced back to its founding, institutionalization and expansion since the 1870s.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0300044623 (hardcover)
9780300044621 (hardcover)
0300049838 (paperback)
9780300049831 (paperback)

Subject:

Art Historiography.
Arte Historiografía.
Art Historiographie.
Kunstgeschichte
Kunstgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
histoire de l'art (discipline)
Kunstgeschichte (Fach)
Visual arts Historiography

Holdings:

Location: Library main 40709
Call No.: ID:89-B10503
Status: Available

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